Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light tackle having double or single blocks, used to hoist or tighten rigging.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a tackle used for various purposes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic An arrangement of blocks and pulleys, especially for tightening
rigging on a ship. - noun archaic Storage of
cargo athwartships .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)
- noun a strong dark English ale
- noun Welsh film actor who often co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor (1925-1984)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Minister of disinformation and Bill burton is the Minister of spin!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, at least he didn’t blame it all on the Jews. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Watanabex says: levar burton is my 2nd favorite black person the 1st is will smiff
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You don’t expect those concentration camps that HELL-a-burton is building ($385M contract) will remain empty forever do you?
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P.T.A. burton greengrass scorsese coen bros. soderbergh malick miyazaki jonze kitano von Trier fincher gibbelin
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I've watched burton stuff since I was about 8 and I've always loved it, I do think that 'alice in wonderland' was a little rushed and he shouldn't have done a remake of 'planet of the apes' because the keyline was ruined but that's the only ones I've not been so keen on - it's not like any of you have ever made a film.
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Wow, crispin glover is in a tim burton alice in wonderland movie … that alone bring thousands of strange images to mind …
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How i wish the positions were reversed. ohgodwhy someone please tell tim burton to stop!
Tim Burton To Bring Us New Addams Family Film in 3D Stop Motion Animation (UPDATED) | /Film 2010
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We get the idea of how republicans treat troops I.E. Walter Reed, troops die taking a shower H. burton Cheney's company, and lack of armor need I go on
Axelrod slams Romney 2009
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Gotta be honest. this video was more hillarious when my friend stephanie acted it out to me. then I saw it and It was kinda dissapointing. but so is tim burton so it makes sense.
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