Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plow equipped with a double moldboard that turns up the soil on each side of the furrow, often having an attached drill for seed planting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In agriculture, an implement, of the nature of a plow, by which open furrows at proper distances from each other are formed, in the bottoms of which maize or other grain is planted by a drill.
- noun See
leister . - noun A reader.
- noun A preaching friar; a lector.
- noun One who makes a list or roll; specifically, in some parts of the United States, an appraiser for the purpose of taxation; an officer whose duty it is to make lists of taxable property.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
leister . - noun One who makes a list or roll.
- noun A double-moldboard plow which throws a deep furrow, and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
spear armed with three or moreprongs , for striking fish. - noun One who, or that which,
lists or produces alisting ; a person ororganisation thatcreates ormaintains lists .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912)
- noun moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow
- noun assessor who makes out the tax lists
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I am not sure what makes an A-lister, is it about the of posts per day, the number of comments, or the number of views.
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A top "lister" may go to more than 50 countries over a lifetime of birding, notching 8,000-plus species out of the roughly 10,000 on earth.
Birders Flock East 2008
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I like the rhythm of finding recipes, making a grocery list, doing the shopping the stepkid likes to be the "lister," i.e., the person who crosses things off the list, making the food, knowing it's there in the freezer.
Archive 2005-04-01 Emma Goldman 2005
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I like the rhythm of finding recipes, making a grocery list, doing the shopping the stepkid likes to be the "lister," i.e., the person who crosses things off the list, making the food, knowing it's there in the freezer.
Thought for Food Emma Goldman 2005
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Claremorris, I tried to see a "lister," that is, a landowner and agent on the "black list."
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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We are here to make sure their address is correct so that they can get counted in the census when it comes out next year, "said Tom Boone, a retired firefighter who is working as a" lister "in the central part of Billings.
billingsgazette.com 2009
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When one A-list actress works with a fellow A-lister in a film, they can light up the screen.
Judy Kurtz: This Week's Shining and Falling Stars: Joan Rivers and Jennifer Aniston Judy Kurtz 2011
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As a mid-lister, I make my living by writing at least two mass-market books per year, and supplementing that income with small press work, primarily targeted at the collectible market.
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Is it professionally acceptable for a mid-lister, with a proven customer base that purchases anything he/she writes, to dabble with self-publishing?
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When one A-list actress works with a fellow A-lister in a film, they can light up the screen.
Judy Kurtz: This Week's Shining and Falling Stars: Joan Rivers and Jennifer Aniston Judy Kurtz 2011
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