Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who steals, in any sense; especially, a thief: as, a cattle-stealer.
- n. Specifically In ship-building, the foremost or aftmost plank in a strake, which is dropped short of the stem or stern-post and butts against a notch or jog in another plank. Also called stealing-strake.
Wiktionary
- n. One who steals; a thief.
- n. shipbuilding The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who steals; a thief.
- n. (Shipbuilding) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
Examples
“He does an admirable job of ignoring his mostly comedic background but the real scene-stealer is Frank Whaley.”
“However the real film stealer is the girl Thuy Nguyen and how great she is during some incredibly difficult scenes, not just for her to act, but for us to watch as well.”
“And according to material dug up by several lefty bloggers, the shocking fact seems to be that Domenech is a word stealer of epic proportions, someone who has lifted entire articles from other sources and claimed the words and ideas as his own....”
“And according to material dug up by several lefty bloggers, the shocking fact seems to be that Domenech is a word stealer of epic proportions, someone who has lifted entire articles from other sources and claimed the words and ideas as his own….”
“and BTW Jason..looks like my name stealer third parrot has nailed you to the wall…again..”
“But the real scene-stealer is Andy (Ed Helms), who busts a serious move as ‘Nard Dog.”
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“Visitors are instructed to download their profile, which according to multiple sources is a malicious program (almost certainly a password stealer) that is hard to detect by the vast majority of anti-virus products on the market today.”
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“Visitors are instructed to download their profile, which according to multiple sources is a malicious program almost certainly a password stealer that is hard to detect by the vast majority of anti-virus products on the market today.”
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“The malicious code included a downloader and a stored password stealer and appeared to be have been made to order for 76Service.”
“Blanco is a nominal – not a real – horse-stealer, that is to say, he has committed the sin which a society of horsemen does not pardon.”
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Sweet tooth fairy dominoes
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Each person adds one word trying to create a single, potentially infinite sweet tooth fairy (please look it up if you are not familiar wit...banana, boat, house, arrest, warrant, peace, sign, post, box, clever, Hans, device and 119 more...
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Some Ship-building Terms
Ship builders' terms, from stem to stern (these words aren't on the list).
coping, chock, filling, sponson, spale, shore, deck-beam, beam, round-up, shelf, ribband, sny and 248 more...
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