Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
plier .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.
- noun See
pliers .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of
balance used inraising and letting down adrawbridge . It consists oftimbers joined in theform of a St. Andrew's cross. - noun Alternative spelling of
plier .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who plies a trade
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Examples
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So high that you as a plyer are trusted to keep your own score.
That Christian Bale freakout is now the "Bale Out" remix. Ann Althouse 2009
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Each plyer must coordinate his or her actions with others, and they must do it not simply in a reflective, leisurely fashion, but on the fly, in an embodied and urgent manner; the goal is to be able to act and react as a group, ready to face any new contingency that presents itself.
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Each plyer must coordinate his or her actions with others, and they must do it not simply in a reflective, leisurely fashion, but on the fly, in an embodied and urgent manner; the goal is to be able to act and react as a group, ready to face any new contingency that presents itself.
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The assistants had just arranged two baskets filled with bran along each side of the machine; one was destined to receive the severed head, the other the body when that was released from the plyer.
Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894
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The piano is the most prominent plyer here, joined by guitar and a variety of other sounds.
Thestar.com - Home Page John Terauds 2011
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Batsman Gautam Gambhir has become the latest plyer on India's injured list.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Comment posted by Ramon on March 31, 2009 at 10: 53 pm yes but we must get another afr american plyer if we dump marlon per ny times!!!! right
Mets Geek 2009
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November 17th, 2008 at 1: 15 pm can you tell me how i can download this song-the yahoo media plyer on your site / server doesn't allow downloads??? never used to be this way
Aurgasm 2009
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It also does not mean that a plyer should not be responsible for any resulting injury/damage that he may cause.
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Comment posted by BOB A. BOOEY on March 31, 2009 at 10: 51 pm (#943149) yes but we must get another afr american plyer if we dump marlon per ny times!!!! right
Mets Geek 2009
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