Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A European abalone (Haliotis tuberculata) found chiefly in the Channel Islands.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ear-shell or sea-ear; an abalone or haliotid; a large marine shell of the family Haliotidæ: formerly a local English (Channel Islands) name of H. tuberculata, more fully called
Guernsey ormer , or Guernsey ear-shell, which is abundant there and is used as food. See cut underabalone .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An abalone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
abalone orsea-ear , particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the Channel Islands.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an abalone found near the Channel Islands
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In contrast, the five-year note was the best perf ormer as many investors bought this maturity and sold 30-year securities, taking advantage of the supply dynamics.
Treasury Prices Rally Min Zeng 2011
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"[F] ormer U.S. House of Representatives Page, Real Estate broker, and music composer" Thomas Boyle promises to FINE TUNE AMERICA (probably a joke, but who can tell these days?).
O wie mich sehnet auszuruhn Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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"The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and that will happen next month," the f ormer manager of a textile factory said.
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"[F] ormer U.S. House of Representatives Page, Real Estate broker, and music composer" Thomas Boyle promises to FINE TUNE AMERICA (probably a joke, but who can tell these days?).
Archive 2008-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Promoted to Headline (H3) on 6/4/09: Let them know yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Let them know'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Message from ormer Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.'
Let them know 2009
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This contents and the demeaning language used in this article and the one by Dennis Ross are insulting not only to the present Iranian leadership, but also to the majority of Iranians including those who strongly oppose the Iranian administration such as the ormer Foreign Minister under Shah, Mr. Ardeshir Zahedi.
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FlS, you soon forget Jim Johnson, another crook, ormer Fanie CEO and Obama advisor/fund raiser
So is Franklin Raines an Obama economic advisor or not? Ann Althouse 2008
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She even got ormer Secretary of the Army, Togo West to stand there and vouch for her version of events.
Clinton Acknowledges: ‘I Misspoke’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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"Just in the past few months," [Bruce Bartlett ormer policy advisor for Ronald Reagan] said, "I think a light has gone off for people who've spent time up close to Bush: that this instinct he's always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do."
Dowd Defection only the first crack in the Bush inner-circle Dam? 2007
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The Washington Times says, Intelligence sources said a network of current and ormer CIA officers opposed to Mr. Bagley's views was behind the cancellation. . .
frogapplause commented on the word ormer
Ormer, the very lonely abalone.
May 30, 2010
mollusque commented on the word ormer
The very lovely aboriginal abalone.
May 30, 2010
frogapplause commented on the word ormer
Ormer, the very lovely
but lonely
aboriginal abalone
who was full of baloney.
May 30, 2010
mollusque commented on the word ormer
and cannelloni.
May 30, 2010
fbharjo commented on the word ormer
but wasn't called a phon(e)y
November 29, 2011