Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A clerk in a post-office whose duty it is to decipher obscure or illegible addresses on letters.
- noun Called
blind-reader in the United States. - noun A blind or blinded person: used as a single word in certain phrases and names.
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Examples
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The youngest thought half the fun was to see our enthusiasm in "blindman's bluff," "fox and geese," and "bean bags."
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The 'blindman' seen everywhere is David Blunkett, who is blind himself, the then UK Home Secretary who introduced these measures & other similar laws.
Friday Music: Mark E. Smith and The Fall Kay Olson 2009
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You know playin 'blindman's bluff is a little baby's game
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'Mekusangokko,' which is a sort of 'blindman's buff.'
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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"blindman," who had riddled out the address, was quite willing to give me the parcel without further ado, but I said: --
Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889
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After landing in the USA years later, he proceeded to walk from New York to Kansas City, Missouri, where he found gainful employment, by dressing up like a blindman and selling pencils on the street.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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After landing in the USA years later, he proceeded to walk from New York to Kansas City, Missouri, where he found gainful employment, by dressing up like a blindman and selling pencils on the street.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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Had not Lincoln been made a martyr for the ages his fate might have been similar. blindman
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Doing something to save lives is NOT a moral imperative in your world since explaining morality to you would be like trying to explain the color blue to a blindman.
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After landing in the USA years later, he proceeded to walk from New York to Kansas City, Missouri, where he found gainful employment, by dressing up like a blindman and selling pencils on the street.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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