Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Railroading), Cant, U. S. A contrivance for throwing the track temporarily to one side for convenience in filling washouts or effecting other repairs.
- noun (Print.) In some cylinder presses, a device with long fingers for freeing the sheet from the cylinder.
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Examples
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And every source I searched out made my local food specialties, cooked with love by big-armed ladies at church festivals (pierogies, haluski, and shoefly pie) seem like an embarrassment to humanity.
Maria Rodale: Is It True That People Don't Cook Anymore? 2009
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My paternal family loves things like red beet eggs and homemade saurkraut and shoefly pie.
Tempting Obama on the Trail - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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At the eponymous holiday they do excellent pumpkin and shoefly pies and I suspect they do cakes throughout the year.
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A maid brought in a huge shoefly pie, and served them each a slice.
The Color of Her Panties Anthony, Piers 1992
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A maid brought in a huge shoefly pie, and served them each a slice.
The Color of Her Panties Anthony, Piers 1992
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