highboy

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  1. noun A tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs.

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  • Then he took the leather-bound photo albums off the highboy, grabbed the watercolor from the easel, and carried the load of stuff to the kitchen. —  The 6th Target by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
  • The haunted antique highboy, anthropomorphized by its owner who thinks that it will stop at nothing to ensure its own health and safety. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 02 - February 1995
  • In some locations he uses a highboy sprayer instead of an airplane to teat fields. —  Delta Farm Press RSS Feed
  • Cottage Treasures also showed an industrial dining table and a 1940s tiger maple highboy and a pair of 1940s wingback chairs in ticking with down-filled cushions.
  • A rare 18th Century Queen Anne highboy wowed bidders, climbing to an impressive $24,150. —  Antique News News!
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