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- noun Plural form of
shute .
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Examples
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Lemming Aid iz wen yu put da para-shutes on teh lemmings wen dey jump, sew dey aer ok.
Just wait until the tomcat who is - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Liek where ai red taht Juj Dred alwaiz shutes eberebuddee.
I RUN - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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BTW, if yure gonna shutes, taek it owtside. i hate a big mess in teh cortroom.
Your turn? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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But what was most striking about the IHT piece wasn't the details the town's creators were highlighting - the rooftops with energy-producing photovoltaic solar panels, the wind farms, the trash shutes -- but rather the far more conspicuous absence of any Chinese sources in the story.
Megan Shank: Trade on the New Silk Road: Euros for Emissions 2008
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They are going swimming at the local leisure centre later on too - an exciting trip, because it has lots of water shutes!
sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002
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Manila airport but all 232 passengers and crew escaped unhurt down emergency shutes, rescue officials said.
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It may be worth while here to speak of the probable reason why gold, and indeed almost all the metals generally occur in shutes in the lodes; and why, as is often the case, these shutes are found to be more or less in
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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Generally a careful examination of the enclosing rocks where the shute is found will reveal some points of difference from the enclosing rocks at other parts of the course of the lode, and when ore shutes are found parallel in reefs running on the same course, bands or belts of similar country rock will be found at the productive points.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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Most practical men who have given the subject attention will, I think, be disposed to coincide with this view, though there are some who hold that the occurrence of these parallel ore shutes and rich deposits at the junctions of lodes is due to extraneous electrical agency.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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When blasting the cap of a lode, particularly on rich shutes of gold, the rock is apt to fly, and rich specimens may be thrown far afield and so be lost.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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