Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mech., a drill-clamp; an iron strap or frame which can be clamped to or caught on a piece it is desired to drill, to furnish an abutment or brace to resist the driving or feeding pressure which forces the drill-point to its work.
- noun The southernwood, Artemisia Abrotanum.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
oldman .
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Examples
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Fallen fruit from the old-man tree rolled into their room, and Kit picked it up.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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"From there, you wander over to the school play," he says, where his aforementioned "old-man voice" sealed his fate.
Boardwalk Empire's Michael Shannon Doesn't Know How Creepy He Can Be 2010
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Fallen fruit from the old-man tree rolled into their room, and Kit picked it up.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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But when, at one point, he makes a soul-killing choice to follow the Bureau's plan, the shambling, old-man gait with which he ends the scene says what he can't bear to speak aloud.
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Fallen fruit from the old-man tree rolled into their room, and Kit picked it up.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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She was far too beautiful to be in some old-man bar wedged between a Laundromat and a bus station.
Power Ballad (Revised) Meakin Armstrong 2011
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Get off your old-man, overpaid duff McCain and HELP clean up the mess that is left before our country right now!!!
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His face was wrinkled, his lips turned toward the jawline in a perpetual old-man frown.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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Who else is alternately bored by the prospect of yet another take on Ebenezer Scrooge, then horrified by the image of old-man Carrey skyward-bound on a makeshift rocket?
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I saw the non-3D version with my old-man and it was entertaining.
Avatar, shmavatar pabba 2010
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