Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun plural Handcuffs.
- noun A plasterers' tool consisting of a thin strip of wood about 3 or 3½ feet long and 7 inches broad, with two handles at the back, used for floating a ceiling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A specialized tool used to finish concrete slabs. A stiff, wooden or metal wedge or triangle, it is used to smooth and level the surface of wet concrete.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then there is infrastructure and basic necessities which people take for granted in US but are luxury in India reply margot darby
Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China Vivek Wadhwa 2005
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Because as it stands — and regardless of where you stand on the issue — Fairey is in violation of the law and deserves to be held accountable. reply margot darby
Shepard Fairey Responds To The AP: Yes, I Lied. But It Was Still Fair Use. Jason Kincaid 2005
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"darby," what Dickens aptly referred to as a "pot-hat," what, in one highly diverting form, is sometimes referred to on the other side as a
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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But airs must be maintained if one wishes to become the presidential candidate for the GOP darby
Sanford says he was in Argentina, not on Appalachian Trail 2009
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Jill Brenneman on Radical feminist therapy alexad on Third-Gendering darby on Third-Gendering
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Kids are exhorted as a "lads," and when they play their crosstown rivals in the annual "derby," it's naturally pronounced "darby."
Simon Maxwell Apter: World Cup Memo: U.S. Soccer Must Stop Idolizing the English 2010
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However, I do own a simply wonderful kelly green darby that I got the owner of our local costume place to order for me precisely for this occasion.
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Maybe you're interested in a local weather reports for business purposes, and maybe that you're just interested whether you local team won the darby (ph).
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"Will, he wahn the darby doncher know; and a harse like that you don't eat awl at once, now do yer?"
"Two Borat-inspired British animal rights activists clad in lettuce bikinis braved the winter chill in the Kazakh commercial capital Almaty..." Ann Althouse 2006
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"Will, he wahn the darby doncher know; and a harse like that you don't eat awl at once, now do yer?"
"Two Borat-inspired British animal rights activists clad in lettuce bikinis braved the winter chill in the Kazakh commercial capital Almaty..." Ann Althouse 2006
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