Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The local Irish designation of certain beds of shales, sandstones, and clays, containing thin, unworkable seams of coal. The calp belongs to the Lower Carboniferous series. See
culm .
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- noun geology A dark shaly
limestone occurring in theCarboniferous limestone of Ireland.
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Hillary Airs New Ad In Pennsylvania Hitting Obama's "Small-Town" Comments 2009
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A University sides with a professor over diverso-multi-culti calp trap?
The continuing travails over talking about race in the classroom. Ann Althouse 2007
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"Dat a calp cry, Massa Henry -- see he dere a canoe not bigger nor a hick'ry nut," and he pointed with his finger to what in fact had the appearance of being little larger;
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 1 John Richardson 1824
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I nebber see a hebben ib he not a calp of a younger
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 1 John Richardson 1824
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"Dat a calp cry, Massa Henry -- see he dere a canoe not bigger nor a hick'ry nut," and he pointed with his finger to what in fact had the appearance of being little larger;
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Complete John Richardson 1824
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"I wish," he pursued with bitterness, "dey bring him calp of dem billians Desborough -- Dam him lying tief to hell."
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Complete John Richardson 1824
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"I wish," he pursued with bitterness, "dey bring him calp of dem billians Desborough -- Dam him lying tief to hell."
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 1 John Richardson 1824
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I nebber see a hebben ib he not a calp of a younger
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Complete John Richardson 1824
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Granollers took the biggest calp of the tournament so far, despatching the eighth seed and finalist at last year's Roland Garros.
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Granollers took the biggest calp of the tournament so far, despatching the eighth seed and finalist at last year's Roland Garros.
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