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- noun Plural form of
fid .
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Examples
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Am I the only one who fids humor in the fact that the ad is urging McSame to chuck Chuck Black, if not in those exact same words?
Tough New MoveOn Ad Demands McCain Fire Lobbyist Charlie Black 2009
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We soon had the ponies behind walls and well fed, borrowed their primus for ourselves, and had a square meal of pemmican and biscuit with fids of seal liver in it.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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Joke_ and which the _Nonesuch_ you never could be sure, for the lugger carried fids, topmast, crosstrees, and a spare suit of sails to turn her into a ketch at twenty minutes 'notice; and likewise the ketch could ship topmast, shift her rigging, and hoist a spare suit of lug-sails in no longer time.
Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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One case there was where, for three nights running, great fids of wire were cut out of some artillery cables connecting them with their observers -- a most reprehensible deed.
The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 Edward Gleichen 1900
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Cupid carried the Wallingford's ensign, and a sort of _harlequinade_ had been made out of marlinspikes, serving mallets, sail-maker's palms, and fids.
Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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The other rigging I cut, and having got out the fids of the two masts, one at a time, I pushed the spars through their respective caps with a foot.
Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Some video of my fids hanging out in the bird room.
WN.com - Articles related to Some worry free Wi-Fi will cramp Starbucks style 2010
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Some video of my fids hanging out in the bird room.
WN.com - Articles related to Some worry free Wi-Fi will cramp Starbucks style 2010
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As a final nod to the avout, I then turned these musical elements into a game that might be played by fids learning the Adrakhonic Proof.
Disquiet 2008
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God fids vs with Bitts, who surfeited ourselves when we had a full table.
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