Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A low tablelike chest of drawers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Whig and Low-churchman.
- noun A chest of drawers supported on short legs. See
high-boy , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun United States A chest of drawers not more than four feet high; -- applied commonly to the lower half of a tallboy from which the upper half has been removed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A low
chest of drawers . - noun A type of
semi-trailer
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a low chest or table with drawers and supported on four legs
Etymologies
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Examples
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On the panel over the lowboy was a small painting, a foot broad and a foot and a half long.
The Pagan Madonna Harold MacGrath 1901
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When called last week, Craig said he had just issued a six-axle "lowboy" truck, among the heaviest on the road, a speeding ticket for going 71 mph in a 55 mph zone.
unknown title 2009
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I drove a lowboy truck with a Cat [Caterpillar] or a front loader on the trailer.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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People came and went, and Don pulled beer out of the lowboy behind the tasting bar and gave out excellent, hoppy California microbrews.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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People came and went, and Don pulled beer out of the lowboy behind the tasting bar and gave out excellent, hoppy California microbrews.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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People came and went, and Don pulled beer out of the lowboy behind the tasting bar and gave out excellent, hoppy California microbrews.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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Within a decade or so, Crate & Barrel server racks won't seem any more exotic than lowboy cabinets for flat-panel TVs.
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Killer market : a Deborah Knott mystery / Margaret Maron — A chilling misadventure begins when Deborah, hunting high and lowboy for lodging, is befriended by an eccentric old lady calling herself Mrs. Jernigan.
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Killer market : a Deborah Knott mystery / Margaret Maron — A chilling misadventure begins when Deborah, hunting high and lowboy for lodging, is befriended by an eccentric old lady calling herself Mrs. Jernigan.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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I went back to the door, doused the light, and did a lowboy scan of the corridor.
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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