Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical: A short, heavy iron pin put into a hole in the windlass or bitts, to keep the chaincable in place while veering.
- noun A pin through the rudder-head.
- noun An inhabitant of Normandy, a duchy and later a province of northern France bordering on the English Channel; a member of that branch of the Northmen or Scandinavians who in the beginning of the tenth century settled in northern France and founded the duchy of Normandy.
- noun Same as
Norman French (which see, below). - Of or pertaining to Normandy or the Normans.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A wooden bar, or iron pin.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun United States operatic soprano (born in 1945)
- noun an inhabitant of Normandy
- noun Australian golfer (born in 1955)
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Normandy
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the Normans
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Examples
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English is a nightmare to pronounce with fiddly rules, because it is a mixture of saxon and norman french.
This Is An Outrage Haw Can He Say This? « Literacy Instruction « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2009
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Perhaps he meant her decision to resign? norman from canada
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My beau and I only knew the bride and her best friend so all the air kissing around us left us feeling like norman no mates.
BritChick Paris: Why a High Society Wedding in France Is Tres Tres Posh BritChick Paris 2011
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Five Notorious Gangsters of the Great Depression birthday, birthdays, blythe danner, Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd, feb 3, february 3, horace greeley, james michener, norman rockwell, Pretty Boy Floyd
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My beau and I only knew the bride and her best friend so all the air kissing around us left us feeling like norman no mates.
BritChick Paris: Why a High Society Wedding in France Is Tres Tres Posh BritChick Paris 2011
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My beau and I only knew the bride and her best friend so all the air kissing around us left us feeling like norman no mates.
BritChick Paris: Why a High Society Wedding in France Is Tres Tres Posh BritChick Paris 2011
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Steve Fortney (23: 19: 42): yep. been there. just celebrated our 50th anniversary. all kids here. happy time. minda claims we have a norman rockwell family. maybe so. but behind are depths … …
david allen evans | neighbors « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
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April 4, 2009 at 9: 55 am theres some strange dialog when peter meets norman in his apartment in the new ways to die storyline, he says something about, or like, "what we did is working" or something like that ... who knows what that means but ... probably tied to OMD/BND
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Why do you think the judges on american idol cut some of the better people and put through bad ones? ex: cody sheldon and michael castro should have gone through tatiana del toro and norman gentle should have gone home.
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My Favorite TV Dads From The 1960s all in the family, andy griffith, I love lucy, jerry seinfeld, larry gelbart, lucille ball, mash, norman lear, seinfeld, TV Shows
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Norman by Sue Thompson
"Norman, ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo, Norman..."
February 9, 2008