Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Nautical A light tackle having double or single blocks, used to hoist or tighten rigging.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Nautical, a tackle used for various purposes.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic An arrangement of blocks and pulleys, especially for tightening rigging on a ship.
- n. archaic Storage of cargo athwartships.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part.
WordNet 3.0
- n. English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)
- n. a strong dark English ale
- n. Welsh film actor who often co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor (1925-1984)
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Minister of disinformation and Bill burton is the Minister of spin!!!!!!!!!!!”
Well, at least he didn’t blame it all on the Jews. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“Watanabex says: levar burton is my 2nd favorite black person the 1st is will smiff”
“You don’t expect those concentration camps that HELL-a-burton is building ($385M contract) will remain empty forever do you?”
“Wow, crispin glover is in a tim burton alice in wonderland movie … that alone bring thousands of strange images to mind …”
“Labels: dc comics, tim burton, video games comments:”
“We get the idea of how republicans treat troops I.E. Walter Reed, troops die taking a shower H. burton Cheney's company, and lack of armor need I go on”
“Gotta be honest. this video was more hillarious when my friend stephanie acted it out to me. then I saw it and It was kinda dissapointing. but so is tim burton so it makes sense.”
“I've watched burton stuff since I was about 8 and I've always loved it, I do think that 'alice in wonderland' was a little rushed and he shouldn't have done a remake of 'planet of the apes' because the keyline was ruined but that's the only ones I've not been so keen on - it's not like any of you have ever made a film.”
“P.T.A. burton greengrass scorsese coen bros. soderbergh malick miyazaki jonze kitano von Trier fincher gibbelin”
“How i wish the positions were reversed. ohgodwhy someone please tell tim burton to stop!”
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