Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for trimming pieces of slate into the forms desired for roofing- or writing-slates.
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Born in 1483, died in 1546; his father a slate-cutter: studied at Magdeburg and Erfurt; against the wishes of his family, became a monk; went to Rome in 1510; published on the church door at Wittenburg in 1517 his thesis against the sale of indulgences; summoned to Rome, he refused to go and published further attacks upon the Church; excommunicated in
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. Various 1885
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A peasant by birth, the son of a slate-cutter named Hans Luther, he so distinguished himself as a scholar that his father proposed to make him
Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German Charles Morris 1877
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