Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lightning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
leven . - noun An obsolete variant of
leaven .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Lightning.
- noun [Obs.] a thunderbolt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Lightning ; a bolt of lightning.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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On the count of three, Kyrtian fired a kind of levin-bolt" straight up over their heads.
Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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February 23rd, 2010 at 5: 33 pm wwew says: levin conveniently forgets reagan was a big spending republican. but i guess a stimulus package that created millions of government jobs dressed up in the form of defense spending is something different.
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November 25th, 2009 1: 46 pm ET hmmm. non-partisan tea-party. non tea partisan party non party tea partisan no matter how it is written, when rightwing coocoos come together, expect the worst of christian conservative gullible dummies. they are just ATMs for book sales for the likes of beck, palin, levin, oreilly and soon cheney. what s mix! the gang of hate and fear conspiracy theorists. amo
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Mr. Sonia Herecomestheangst says: wwew says: levin conveniently forgets reagan was a big spending republican.
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Carl levin looked like a dope to anyone who knows the basics of how securities are bought and sold at a fair bid/ask price.
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February 23rd, 2010 at 5: 47 pm flight says: wwew @ 73 levin conveniently forgets reagan was a big spending republican. but i guess a stimulus package that created millions of government jobs dressed up in the form of defense spending is something different.
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Until Elspeth started flinging levin-bolts around, that is.
Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010
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Kel hit him with more force than a levin-bolt, doubtlessly breaking the warrior's back in an instant, and pushed him level to the lay of the earth for over five horse-lengths.
Elephant in the City 2010
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The levin-bolts arced into his shields with a crack that hurt his ears and an eye-burning light that made his eyes water.
Elephant in the City 2010
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I just searched for "sen carl levin" on both the NY Times and Wash Post sites.
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