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- noun carpentry, masonry A piece of
wood orstone used to repair a larger piece, shaped such that it fills as exactly as possible avoid orcavity that is to be repaired.
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Examples
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Sahwah was telling that joke about the man thinking the car was empty, when all the while there was a miss in the motor and a "dutchman" in the back seat, when there came a rap on the door and the lady of the house came in.
The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way 1924
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It was Eph who taught him how to tell the time of day by the sun; how to insert a "dutchman" in the place of a lost suspender button; how to make bird-traps; and how to "skin the cat."
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) Various 1887
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Thank God for the "flying dutchman" – he has not been given near enough credit for an heroic act ......
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As the daughter of a dutchman never have I been more glad his family emigrated to Canada.
Regretsy – Smitten 2010
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I think that while barbossa and sparrow are lookin for the fountain of youth with swann, they are also going to be finding out a way to get turner out of the flying dutchman.
Depp Confirms Knightley & Bloom Won't Return for Pirates 4 « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Turner is stuck in the flying dutchman even so that Sparrow did it to save his life, but curse.
Depp Confirms Knightley & Bloom Won't Return for Pirates 4 « FirstShowing.net 2010
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I sincerely hope you have made the right choice here, or will be liberated when things turn nasty (insofar they have not already). p.s. The only dutchman making headlines for planning to go to Britain is Hiddink ...
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Will only became captain of the dutchman to save his dad, that doesn't mean he WANTED to be a captain.
Filmstalker: Bruckheimer confirms Pirates of the Caribbean 4? 2006
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Will only became captain of the dutchman to save his dad, that doesn't mean he WANTED to be a captain.
Filmstalker: Bruckheimer confirms Pirates of the Caribbean 4? 2006
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Anyway I think they should have Will's son somehow stowaway on the flying dutchman.
Filmstalker: Bruckheimer confirms Pirates of the Caribbean 4? 2006
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