Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation furlong
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Examples
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Seriously, there were lamposts that looked like they were covered in fur.
Surely These Were Born In The Depths Of Hell And Released Only To Torture Me For Unseen Wrongoings 2008
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Seriously, there were lamposts that looked like they were covered in fur.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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It wasn't attached to anything and sort of hung there like a bit of mud caught in fur.
Archive 2006-12-01 Dave Hingsburger 2006
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It wasn't attached to anything and sort of hung there like a bit of mud caught in fur.
Toes Dave Hingsburger 2006
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But it doesn't help that they are still pushing the exhumed provenance known as fur.
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I told you the foundations was sandy, sur, and that we had to go down deeper than the specifications called fur.
The City and the World and Other Stories Francis Clement Kelley 1909
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The boy must hev his l'arnin'-books his min 'calls fur.
The Heart of Old Hickory and Other Stories of Tennessee 1895
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Then he pays fur 'em, an 'leaves 'em to be called fur.
The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day Robert Neilson Stephens 1886
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Nature has dressed these horses warmly, and very often their hair may justly be called fur.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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At first he'd thought the yellow growths were some kind of fur.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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