Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various swallows, such as the house martin or the purple martin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
marten . - noun A shortened form of
freemartin . - noun Any swallow of the family Hirundinidæ; a martinet; a martlet.
- noun An ape.
- noun See the quotation.
- noun A tool for grinding or polishing stone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Stone Working) A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows.
- noun The fairy martin. See under
Fairy . - noun The kingbird.
- noun the bank swallow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
passerine birds of the familyHirundinidae , which also includesswallows , that catchinsects whilst flying.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun United States actor and comedian (born in 1945)
- noun French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397)
- noun any of various swallows with squarish or slightly forked tail and long pointed wings; migrate around Martinmas
- noun United States actress (1913-1990)
- noun United States singer (1917-1995)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Panther martin is a great lure, but I have hooked over 10 types of fish on a single rooster tail.
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Panther martin is a great lure, but I have hooked over 10 types of fish on a single rooster tail.
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My question to tea partiers and ms. martin is where were they when bush and the GOP were raping the middle class to give to the wealthy?
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Nick it sounds to me that that's what martin is trying to do here. bridge that gap.
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Yes | No | Report from elaphant444 wrote 34 weeks 4 days ago the panther martin is very underated on the list, it is my favorite trout lure.
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Yes | No | Report from elaphant444 wrote 34 weeks 4 days ago the panther martin is very underated on the list, it is my favorite trout lure.
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I also fear Martin will fall victim to Jordan-itis and SOI&F will end up being a neverending snooze fest. in truth I found a game of thrones dull for the most part, and while martin is quite ambitious and i can respect that, I am simply not impressed overly with it all.
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The purple martin is another bird belonging to our Western World, entirely different from the martin of Europe; it is a bird of wide range, however, over this continent, reaching from the Equator to the northern fur countries.
Rural Hours 1887
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Captains Gosnold, Salterne and Martin Pring on the coast of new england: Perhaps the last gives the name martin's vineyard, as sometimes styled, iii.
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i personally thing martin is the best but the answer to your question is yes
chained_bear commented on the word martin
"Abraham, Martin and John" sung by Dion, and the old folk song "Martin's Rattler."
February 9, 2008