wooden+shoe

  • 71Holland Public Schools — is a school district in Holland, Michigan. Founded in 1848, Holland Public Schools has earned state and national recognition for excellence in education. Approximately 314 teachers, with an average of 14 years experience each and most possessing… …

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  • 72folk music — 1. music, usually of simple character and anonymous authorship, handed down among the common people by oral tradition. 2. music by known composers that has become part of the folk tradition of a country or region. [1885 90] * * * Music held to be …

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  • 73sabotage — sab·o·tage / sa bə ˌtäzh/ n [French, from saboter to clatter with wooden shoes, botch, sabotage, from sabot wooden shoe] 1: the willful destruction of an employer s property or the hindering of normal operations by other means 2: the injury,… …

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  • 74coeur en sabot — (ah să boґ) [“wooden shoe–shaped heart”] a heart visible radiographically as having an increased transverse diameter, a convexity in the inferior line, and an elevation and rounded shape of the apex, so that its form suggests vaguely… …

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  • 75Racket — Rack et (r[a^]k [e^]t), n. [F. raquette; cf. Sp. raqueta, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net (cf. {Reticule}); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. r[=a]ha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the ball),… …

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  • 76Racket court — Racket Rack et (r[a^]k [e^]t), n. [F. raquette; cf. Sp. raqueta, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net (cf. {Reticule}); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. r[=a]ha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the… …

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  • 77racquet — Racket Rack et (r[a^]k [e^]t), n. [F. raquette; cf. Sp. raqueta, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net (cf. {Reticule}); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. r[=a]ha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the… …

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  • 78Sabot — Sa bot (s[.a] b[=o] ), n. [F.] 1. A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mil.) A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are… …

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  • 79clop — noun Etymology: imitative Date: 1841 a sound made by or as if by a hoof or wooden shoe against the pavement • clop intransitive verb …

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  • 80Mondegreen — A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song.[1][2] American writer Sylvia Wright coined… …

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