Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In lumbering, a fallen tree on the shore, or a timber to which the hawser of a boom is attached.
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Examples
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I'd like to see a "dead-man switch" feature: If I'm NOT holding down the 'O' and 'K' keys down (or other configurable keys) on startup, THEN connect and send info.
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For the next two months after that terrible medical result, I have felt like I am a dead-man walking because I opted to continue working and live my life normally as if nothing happened.
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Makes me want to rig up a "dead-man switch" on the food locker.
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That could have been done either by the rig's dead-man switch, which is meant to automatically trigger the shears when the rig loses its connection to the blowout preventer, or it could have triggered two days later when remote-controlled robots arrived on the scene.
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It wasn't till much later that I discovered that his dead-man's-float demeanor was purely for show; a lot more was going on in there than I knew.
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Makes me want to rig up a "dead-man switch" on the food locker.
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Brown is a dead-man walking, at the minute our biggest liability.
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If the bombers were walking around buttoned down with a dead-man switch, the minute they released their trigger their device would explode.
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What is honest respect and what is merely making money off a dead-man.
Gene Odom in Toronto, Canada. May 2008 » Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie
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By 9: 00 a.m., the vehicle enters the densely populated area, where the passenger arms the dead-man switch on the detonator.
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