Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A metal stand for keeping in the heat upon a joint while it is roasting before the fire.
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Examples
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Note 93: Régime, p. 73: "Et se c'est cose ke li enfes soit mors, si se convient haster de le femme delivrer por ce k'il i a trop grant peril." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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The previous top level appointees have come and gone; spent their time and returned to privare corportations to cash in their connections while good : hence to ascribe potlical motivations to every effort by doj lower level appointees and staff is probably wrong however once the actions come to light to the politicos in involved in this jefferson/haster/pelosi chum theynade hay.
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Murder haster make 'em -- dar wan't none big enuff fer him.
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Yo 'haster keep yer fool eyes shet an' do'an yer see nuffin ', an' zif yer do peep one eye on it, sorter sly like, des keep yer mouf shet an 'hole yer tongue.
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And an amnesty will just haster the process, which has been ongoing since the 1965 immigration act.
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A pwopwo of haster meets waster and talking of plebiscites by a show of hands, whether declaratory or effective, in all seriousness, has it become to dawn in you yet that the deponent, the man from Saint Yves, may have been (one is reluctant to use the passive voiced) may be been as much sinned against as sin-ning, for if we look at it verbally perhaps there is no true noun in active nature where every bally being — please read this mufto — is becoming in its owntown eyeballs.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Before you have your press conf. mr haster, we will put the lie detector on you…hold stilll…mm….there…BEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
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mr. haster…please comment on Foley, the perv. he a Republican/Christan or…is he a terrrrus….should we torture him offshore?
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Mic check…tap tap…again mr haster..a hum…”I don’t recall”….that’s a wrap.
Think Progress » BREAKING: Hastert’s Senior Staff Asked ‘To Intervene’ Three Years Ago 2006
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When I lets him out fo 'an airin' he hikes right straight fo 'some farmer's hen-yard, an' den I haster hunt fo 'him. "
On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake Roy Rockwood
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