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- noun A
polymer ,polyethylene terephthalate PET , as used for making thread and cloth.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I normally avoid the stuff, but because the dog was so pale I used that instead of the braided dacron which is black that I prefer.
Doggone it all maryrobinette 2007
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The inner strands of paracord will also work, but I still have my sail repair kit from my sailing days and use those heavy dacron threads.
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The inner strands of paracord will also work, but I still have my sail repair kit from my sailing days and use those heavy dacron threads.
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You would probably have to replace your cables and string on the old Whitetail and even then you're dealing with a dacron string that will stretch and change you point of impact just when you less desire it.
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He had things I had not only never imagined my grandpa wearing, I had never imagined anybody wearing them, but there they were in their dacron glories.
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You would probably have to replace your cables and string on the old Whitetail and even then you're dealing with a dacron string that will stretch and change you point of impact just when you less desire it.
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I needed to get the string braided dacron fishing-line through the hole in the metal rod on the left.
Life with a touring puppeteer: 1998, Day 11 maryrobinette 2007
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Furniture with 8 way hand tied springs, soft down-feather or dacron covered soft foam - is difficult to find.
What's the Worst Advice You Ever Received? (about Mexico, that is) 2005
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Whigs, U.S. Whinfield, J. R., developer of terylene (dacron)
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Subsequent development of polymers included neoprene, arising from work of Father Julius A. Nieuwland beginning in 1906; nylon, developed by Wallace H. Carothers and first manufactured in 1938; acrilan; orlon; dynel; and dacron (called terylene by its British inventors, J.R. Whinfield and J.T. Dickson, 1941).
1863 2001
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