Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of lint made by completely raveling pieces of old linen or by tearing them into very narrow strips.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.
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- noun medicine Straight
threads obtained byunraveling oldlinen cloth , used forsurgical dressings .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Prets pas prets la charrue Charest, acharnée, charcute en charpie la charpente
Archive 2007-01-01 uncorrectedproofs 2007
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This dressing is composed of a piece of gauze, a pad of flax charpie between layers of gauze, a gauze bandage 4-1/2 yards long, a piece of mackintosh water-proof, and two safety pins, enclosed in an air-tight cover.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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If chopped charpie was put in his pocket instead of tobacco he knew no difference.
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If chopped charpie was put in his pocket instead of tobacco he knew no difference.
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A slight preliminary extension outwards of the optic commissure will facilitate the dissection, and must be secured with metallic sutures; any vessels should be tied, and the orbit filled up with a light compress of charpie secured with a bandage.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874
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The whole day we make charpie (lint) for our poor wounded soldiers, of whom a very large number arrived already two days ago.
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The princesses Aline and Sophie sit whole days with me, and we, unhappy widows of live men, make beautiful conversations over our charpie, only you, my friend, are missing ...” and so on.
War and Peace 2003
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The princesses Aline and Sophie sit whole days with me, and we, unhappy widows of live men, make beautiful conversations over our charpie, only you, my friend, are missing ... "and so on.
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869
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