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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See shot garland, under garland.
- n. In land-batteries, an iron or wooden stand on which shot and shell are piled in order to preserve them from deterioration.
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
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originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
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bilby Yarb :-) May 23, 2009
yarb I read this as snot-garland, because that was what I found my daughter adorned with this morning. Mar 25, 2008
chained_bear "... both ships now completely cleared for action—everything peaceable struck down into the hold, shot-garlands filled, screens in place over the magazines, deck sanded and wet, cutlasses sharpened and ready to hand..."
--P. O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 125 Mar 25, 2008