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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of 12 levels of proficiency at the grade of black belt in martial arts such as judo and karate.
  2. n. One who has achieved such a level.
  3. n. An expert or expert level in shogi and other such games.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A title of honor equivalent to master, don, or sir, formerly common, now only archaic.
  2. n. In mining: A small box for carrying coal or attle in a mine.
  3. n. In the midland counties of England, a tub or barrel in which water is carried to the pump or raised to the surface. It may or may not be mounted on wheels.
  4. n. Nautical, a small buoy having a pole on which is displayed by day a flag and by night a lantern. It is used to indicate both the position of deep-sea fish-lines and a center around which a steam trawler is worked.
  5. n. An abbreviation of Danish.

Wiktionary

  1. n. mining A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
  2. n. A rank of black belt in martial arts
  3. n. Someone who has achieved a level of black belt

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.
  2. n. (Mining) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

Etymologies

  1. Uncertain. (Wiktionary)
  2. Japanese, from Middle Chinese nam, male. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • marky Jamaican slang for 'than'. Nov 6, 2010

  • hernesheir "A marker buoy which consists of a long pole moored to the seabed and fitted to float vertically, usually with a coded flag at the top." Wikipedia
    Oct 5, 2009

  • chained_bear "Red Hot Dan" by Fats Waller. Feb 10, 2008

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