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- noun Plural form of
dolly .
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Examples
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Me and two more fellows put something over five hundred looms on what they call dollies, they just shut down about eight a day and move eight a day and move them down in the new part and put them to running.
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Me and two more fellows put something over five hundred looms on what they call dollies, they just shut down about eight a day and move eight a day and move them down in the new part and put them to running.
Oral History Interview with Jefferson M. Robinette, 1977 July. Interview H-41. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Jefferson M. Robinette Jefferson M. Robinette 1977
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In 1970, Newsweek's female staffers -- dismissed as "dollies" -- had to launch a discrimination suit to break through the magazine's steel-reinforced glass ceiling.
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup Arianna Huffington 2010
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In 1970, Newsweek's female staffers -- dismissed as "dollies" -- had to launch a discrimination suit to break through the magazine's steel-reinforced glass ceiling.
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup Arianna Huffington 2010
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Gangs of laborers were swarming over the lumber piles, pitching down the planks, and other gangs were carrying them away and piling them on "dollies," to be pushed along the plank runways to the hoist.
Calumet "K" Henry Kitchell Webster 1903
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English call these offerings "dollies"; the natives _dáli_.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864
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A belt conveyor system is normally integrated with other material handling and storage equipment such as dollies, carts, metal cabinets, hoists and gantry cranes -- all of which is carried by A Plus Warehouse.
unknown title 2009
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A belt conveyor system is normally integrated with other material handling and storage equipment such as dollies, carts, metal cabinets, hoists and gantry cranes -- all of which is carried by A Plus Warehouse.
unknown title 2009
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In the sea of his sister's girlie toys (and Backyardigans "dollies"), he still loves his trucks ….
Cheaty Monkey 2009
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"dollies," or roll them about like nine-pins -- at once included in the education of "Izunsabe," which he took upon himself, a course of elemental doctrine in the one true game.
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