Definitions

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  • noun A steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts, with a boiler mounted on the centre frame, and two steam engines mounted on separate frames, one on each end of the boiler.
  • proper noun A surname.

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Examples

  • Rebecca NicholsonOpening with a horror-movie warning about the dangers of drug abuse think Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith flying at you, this romp through rehab follows the treatment of US celebrities, including model Janice Dickinson and former teen idol Leif Garratt.

    Tonight's TV highlights: Martina Cole's The Runaway | In Confidence | Celebrity Rehab With Dr Drew | Inside The Human Body | The Shadow Line | Psychoville 2 2011

  • Phil Garratt, marketing manager for both Beshoff dealerships, said the Polk data mirror what his stores experienced this year.

    Luxury-Car Buyers Steer to Top Brands Pui-Wing Tam 2011

  • Society member Thomas Snowden held "Fifty shares of the stock of the New Jersey Morris Canal and Banking Company" when he died and when creditors forced Theophilus Eaton to file as an insolvent debtor, he possessed a note from William Garratt promising the delivery of

    Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

  • Beyer-Garratt 4-8-4 + 4-8-4 – the largest locomotive ever built for 50 lb light! rail.

    Mr. Big Stuff 2007

  • Beyer-Garratt 4-8-4 + 4-8-4 – the largest locomotive ever built for 50 lb light! rail.

    Happy Halloween… 2007

  • Garratt also says FEMA now has an identity verification process that wasn't complete right after Katrina.

    CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2007 2007

  • Nothing much had been revealed to him after that, till one day, having gone down to the cow-house for his drink of milk fresh from the cow, after Garratt had finished milking, he had seen

    Awakening 2004

  • Garratt, he had sought “Da”; but suddenly aware that she was not the person he wanted, had rushed away to find his father, and had run into the arms of his mother.

    Awakening 2004

  • On this pond, after his father and Garratt had ascertained by sounding that it had a reliable bottom and was nowhere more than two feet deep, he was allowed a little collapsible canoe, in which he spent hours and hours paddling, and lying down out of sight of Indian Joe and other enemies.

    Awakening 2004

  • So I decided to take a risk and splurge on a fast taxi directly to Garratt Lane after the meeting.

    A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy 2003

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