Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Nautical, a navigator's name for the common quadrant of reflection, from its resemblance in shape to the yoke sometimes placed around the neck of a pig to keep the animal from rooting.
Examples
“Mesty agreed with Jack that this was the _ne plus ultra_ of navigation: and that old Smallsole could not do better with his "pig-yoke" and compasses.”
“Mesty agreed with Jack that this was the ne plus ultra of navigation; and that old Smallsole could not do better with his "pig-yoke" and compasses.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pig-yoke’.
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Swine
For more aporkalyptic fun, see madmouth's Everything's better with a pig in it.
For "references to the Dursleys in Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely's cosmos-shattering voiceover ...swine, pig, hog, boar, pork, pork bellies, hog cholera, swineherd, pigsty, swine flu, oink, pig in a blanket and 188 more...
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Special Beasts
I'm looking for compounds or phrases where the character of an animal is essential to the meaning, yet the term is usable in general conversation.
scapegoat, bull market, sacred cow, bear market, hangdog, cat o' nine tails, clothes horse, mousey, donkey drop, black sheep, horseplay, ducks and drakes and 94 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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- Century Dictionary Aug 10, 2010