Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, a small car used in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania on inclined planes and slopes to push the mine-car up the slope.
- noun A prize-fight.
- noun Humbug.
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- proper noun A
botanical plant nameauthor abbreviation forbotanist E.E. Barney (fl. 1877-79). - proper noun A male
given name , and a diminutive ofBarnabas ,Barnaby ,Bernard , orBarnett . - proper noun A
surname based on the given names, or from the place name Barney, Old English "barn/barley island".
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Examples
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN BARNEY DOES SOME EXPLORING All the same, it was a very disturbing night for Barney.
The Rockingdown Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1949
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I wonder how open-minded in Barney is with polygamous marriages?
Frank slams Obama for 'big mistake' on Defense of Marriage Act (updated) 2009
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This deceit, which I call the Barney Frank Rule, must be stopped.
Cara Community 2008
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This deceit, which I call the Barney Frank Rule, must be stopped.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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The Tyrannosaurus, jocularly nicknamed 'Barney', is to hold a press conference shortly.
Archive 2009-01-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Now what FNM should have done, per Barney, is to send a note to the FNM MBS holder saying a little portion of your check this quarter is going to be delayed until Ralph on Elm Street catchs up.
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That deciding can start now, with the rerelease of all the films in Barney's "Cremaster Cycle," the five-movie magnum opus he completed in 2002.
Movies: Matthew Barney's 'Cremaster Cycle' comes to E Street Cinema Blake Gopnik 2010
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There have been times this season where she has seriously annoyed me, and I got close to thinking that Barney is too good for her.
skittledog: ... Mr Goat? skittledog 2009
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Kaufman began by reading an essay soon to be published in Barney Rossett's Evergreen Review, which is now an online-only publication, he noted.
Hot air didn't stop the Nazis, either. Roger Sutton 2009
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Barney is right, in an emperor has no clothes kind of way.
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