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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name used in New Zealand for Notorhynchus indicus, a notidanoid shark.
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Examples
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Trials with polyamides, such as nylon or perlon, also had to be given up after a longer period.
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Gott: kann nur hoffen das es experimentell & introvertiert wird!!! ihre platten auf perlon und nsi sind ...
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In 161s. fifty acres of land were granted to every emigrant and his heiis, and the fame quantity to every perlon imported by others.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. cn 1796
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Now if the critics laugh at the folly of the Mafe for taking too much notice of the golden ball, let them confider that the meanell thing that belonged to fo valuable a perlon ftil! gave fome freili and doleful refledions: And 1 tranicribe nature without rule, and reprefent friendi'nip in a mourning drefs, abandoned to deepsll fjrrow, and with a negligence becoming woe unfeigned.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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There a; e, it is true, no precife boundaries between them, for they run into each other like the fhades of ditferent colours: no perlon however is at a lofs to didinguifii them in their cxtrea; es: and Se£l:.
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The Prince feem'd very much perplexed vvhat anfwer to make to a perlon who was fiift to be prepared before he could fpeak.
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Made of nonstretch perlon rope, the cavers’ choice, it spanned a chasm thirty yards wide.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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Made of nonstretch perlon rope, the cavers’ choice, it spanned a chasm thirty yards wide.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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k. l.k wrote: Which begs the question, how much longer before REI quits selling webbing and perlon off the spool?
unknown title 2009
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', ...,. r blematical candleiticks, a divinely glorious perlon in the paps Chap. i.
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