Definitions
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- noun a child's construction set for making mechanical models
Etymologies
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Examples
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You know - build it all out of meccano, supply it with some robots that can walk along and manipulate meccano.
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Catholicmomof10militant: My lovely son Alexander & his meccano & lego skip to main
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The humans took it apart and re-built it like a huge meccano set, until they understood its workings.
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What we really need is (with all due attention to health & safety) building sites where those of us who were deprived of meccano when children (although our snotty brothers got it) can play with real life sized cranes and earth movers.
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I'm not sure about construction kits for girls - she likes playing with the meccano at school, but I'm not sure if she'd like it at home as well.
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Whatever you do to the 606, it's still going to be a 606, and it's still going to sound like a golf ball in a bucket of meccano.
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The river tide was sluggishly at the ebb, and away over on the other side a row of cranes stood like red meccano toys in the beginnings of dusk.
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A Finnish freighter, come up on the flood, was manoeuvring alongside across the river under the vulture-like meccano cranes.
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This is the sounds of meccano-ants burying Metal Machine Music in a sugar cave.
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This is the sounds of meccano-ants burying Metal Machine Music in a sugar cave.
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