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- noun Plural form of
punching .
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Examples
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We're just going to admit it – we pretty much thought Charlie Sheen was going to stay single for the rest of his life after splitting up with Denise Richards because, in a world full of Paul McCartney stabbings and David Hasselhoff nose-punchings, Charlie Sheen stands head and shoulders above the pack as King Of Coming Out Of A Divorce Pretty Badly.
Guess What? Charlie Sheen & Denise Richards Hate Each Other Again 2007
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Can the figures or letters be clearly identified or are there any double punchings?
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It is necessary, when more than 10 pounds of thermit will be used, to mix steel punchings not exceeding 3/8 inch diameter by 1/8 inch thick with the powder in order to sufficiently retard the intensity of the reaction.
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Were ever such cries to great Heaven, such invitations to Olympus, slappings of the forehead, punchings of ribs, in Wapping before?
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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Cook, however, was too far "under the influence" to be aroused, and to the vigorous shakings and punchings would respond only with a hiccough and part of the refrain
Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton
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To this quantity of thermit should be added I per cent of pure manganese, 1 per cent nickel thermit and 15 per cent of steel punchings.
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"But I lubs her so!" with a shower of pats and punchings.
Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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It consisted of a 4-inch cartridge case filled with a high explosive and also containing metal such as boiler punchings, nails, etc. (in one case gramophone needles were discovered), and provided with a percussion cap.
The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Herbert Brayley Collett 1912
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These punchings are laid together so as to form a laminated soft-iron field, the limbs of which are about square in cross-section.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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The core of this bobbin and the return path for the magnetic lines of force set up in it are composed of soft iron punchings of substantially = E = shape.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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