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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See note, 5.

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Examples

  • There is nothing on the face of the section or in its shoulder-note which manifests an intention to afford the police a novel protection from claims by offenders for objectively unreasonable or unnecessarily violent arrests.

    What Happened Next to the "Tony Martin" Defence? Jack of Kent 2009

  • There is nothing on the face of the section or in its shoulder-note which manifests an intention to afford the police a novel protection from claims by offenders for objectively unreasonable or unnecessarily violent arrests.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Jack of Kent 2009

  • I'm lane without ye; though I look for ye surely to come ben wi 'a gowd shoulder-note, and a red nose. "

    Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

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  • Old nickname for a type of paper currency.

    December 8, 2010