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  • disbelief”) 1835, Charles Whitehead, The Autobiography of Jack Ketch, page 74: "Over the bender," said Wisp, with a laugh, tossing his thumb over his left...
    484 bytes (53 words) - 02:02, 23 April 2023
  • tudo) (idiomatic) to bend over backwards (to make a great effort) (idiomatic) to be responsible for several different things; to be a jack of all trades...
    222 bytes (47 words) - 02:32, 24 October 2023
  • fish +‎ hook. Cognate with Dutch vishaak (“fishhook”). In the sense of a jack (playing card), refers to the shape of the letter J on the card. IPA(key):...
    6 KB (239 words) - 23:37, 26 October 2024
  • cloud) (slang, obsolete) To smoke a cigar or pipe. Jack Randall's Scrap-Book Let me blow a cloud, or a bender spend At the Pig and Tinder-Box nightly. Tom Crib's...
    460 bytes (77 words) - 19:01, 22 April 2023
  • or to stop them stretching while bending. 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 75: Jack McGrath […] travelled innocently...
    643 bytes (68 words) - 20:20, 21 May 2024
  • between two thinner outer layers, often made of metal or composite. 2018, Jack R. Vinson, The Behavior of Sandwich Structures of Isotropic and Composite...
    602 bytes (73 words) - 23:26, 5 September 2024
  • Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 320: Argent, a lion rampant azure, debruised by a bend gobony ermine and gules. 1945, The New England...
    2 KB (162 words) - 09:38, 2 March 2024
  • plants, native to mountain habitats, often grown in rock gardens. 1991, Jack Elliott, Alpines in the Open Garden, Christopher Helm, →ISBN, page 64: There...
    4 KB (254 words) - 03:58, 28 September 2024
  • abstract idea) possible to be perceived by the senses. 1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan...
    2 KB (211 words) - 01:31, 19 August 2024
  • organic lifeforms – as opposed to robots or AIs – originated with the robot Bender from the animated TV series Futurama, but it became still more popular with...
    2 KB (196 words) - 22:51, 13 November 2024
  • using an auger. To proceed in the manner of an auger. 2010, Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, The Silent Sea‎[1]: It augered into the water and vanishedunder...
    5 KB (418 words) - 04:27, 28 September 2024
  • count for squat deep squat front squat goblet squat hack squat hot squat jack squat pistol squat pop a squat sissy squat split squat squat cage squat effect...
    20 KB (1,641 words) - 22:15, 14 October 2024
  • so lonely, baby Well, I'm so lonely I'll be so lonely, I could die. 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Penguin, published 1976, →OCLC, part...
    8 KB (522 words) - 06:44, 25 November 2024
  • Cousins: "Here, sir, hold the ribbons." This to me, throwing me the reins. Jack got down from his perch, and after a little search in the bush was rewarded...
    9 KB (556 words) - 16:33, 17 October 2024
  • rotating coordinate system and the rotation is otherwise overlooked. 2013, Jack Williams, The AMS Weather Book: The Ultimate Guide to America's Weather‎[2]...
    3 KB (268 words) - 10:15, 27 September 2024
  • a desert creek nearby and heaved rocks at each other to cool off. 1983, Jack Vance, Suldrun’s Garden, Spatterlight Press, 2012, Chapter 18,[9] […] wheezing...
    12 KB (1,019 words) - 20:38, 8 December 2024
  • for pilots to be trapped in the cockpit after an accident. Even a minor “fender bender” could bend the airframe door enough to make the door inoperable....
    2 KB (292 words) - 21:46, 9 March 2022
  • See also: hulk The name of a character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for the Marvel Comics Universe, it has since entered the everyday English lexicon...
    2 KB (254 words) - 16:27, 2 June 2024
  • Gules, on a bend or, a baton azure, on a chief the arms of […] 1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms, London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 326:...
    2 KB (290 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2024
  • and ne're have done, / Till you are weary ſirst, with laying on: […] 1950, Jack Vance, “Mazirian the Magician”, in Dying Earth: Aboard the barge and so off...
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