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  • See also: running mate From running +‎ -mate. running-mate (plural running-mates) Alternative form of running mate. 1960 July 26, Milton Britten, “Reece...
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  • tablemate (category English terms suffixed with -mate)
    From table +‎ -mate. Rhymes: labelmate, stablemate tablemate (plural tablemates) Someone with whom one shares a table. Synonym: tablefellow 2003, Georgina...
    559 bytes (60 words) - 01:01, 19 August 2024
  • kruiswoordraadsel omkruisen   Afrikaans: kruis → English: cruise, cruize → Dutch: cruisen, cruise → French: cruiser See the etymology of the corresponding...
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  • baddies cruise around in a big, grunting, chocolate-brown Monaro. 2010, Quintin Jardine, Screen Savers, unnumbered page: ‘I'm a perfectionist, mate,’ he...
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  • craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor...
    23 KB (1,420 words) - 21:15, 23 November 2024
  • of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”) 1898, Frank T. Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot: The Story of a New Bedford Whaler: Flake after flake ran...
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  • were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals. 1818, W. Cruise, Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 68: The words demise, lease, and...
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  • dated) The direction from which the wind blows. 1865, Arthur Kavanagh, The Cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva, page 62: […] when the sun gets round to the butt of the...
    32 KB (2,818 words) - 15:51, 1 December 2024
  • or port. This train calls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington. Our cruise ship called at Bristol Harbour. To come to pass; to afflict. 1968 December...
    58 KB (4,996 words) - 12:33, 4 December 2024
  • →OCLC: Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the...
    36 KB (3,952 words) - 18:28, 30 November 2024
  • getting into a "gam" of whales, this boat, together with that of one of the mates, pulled for a single whale that was seen at a distance from the others,...
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  • propeller. 2003 December, Jonathan Raban, “Julia and the Whirlpools”, in Cruising World, volume 29, number 12, page 40: This is an area of spectacular tidal...
    67 KB (6,739 words) - 19:48, 18 November 2024
  • fountain. Synonyms: graveyard, swamp water 1994, Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN...
    26 KB (1,852 words) - 16:27, 26 November 2024
  • walk at a leisurely pace — see ramble,‎ saunter,‎ stroll synonym of cruise — see cruise (transitive, intransitive) to sing the parts of (a catch, round,...
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  • a sunken ledge, and keeling over, spilled out the standing mate. 1853 September, “A Cruise after and among the Cannibals”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine...
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  • dollars a minute. 1983 April, Carleton Mitchell, “Cruising with Carleton Mitchell: The Key to Carefree Cruising”, in Roy Attaway, editor, Boating, volume 52...
    12 KB (1,326 words) - 17:19, 17 September 2024
  • was in the third year at school and I was sagging off with a few of my mates. We were on a building site and two of us got arrested and given a caution...
    4 KB (618 words) - 10:46, 2 June 2024
  • on the 6th. 1882, Augustus F. Lindley, “Caught by Chinese Rebels”, in A Cruise in Chinese Waters. Being the Log of "The Fortuna."‎[2], 4th edition, Cassell...
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  • plunged into the well. 1975, John S. Letcher, Jr., “Primer on Piloting”, in Cruising World, volume 1, number 6, page 28: It is amazing how easy it is, in the...
    5 KB (673 words) - 01:32, 19 August 2024
  • dogholes beneath the houses were asphyxiated. 2020, Gordon Stables, The Cruise of the Snowbird, page 118: The field was all our own in five minutes; the...
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