10 Results found for "man/flags/tr".

flag

the n-polytope P is chiral if it has two orbits of flags under its group Γ(P), with adjacent flags in different orbits. (mathematics, linear algebra)...


top-flag

top-flag (plural top-flags) (nautical, obsolete) A flag flown from the top of the mast of a sailing ship. 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome...


swallowtail

McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01: It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore...


stir up

action, etc.). 1900 June 1, Wilbur Wright, Letter to Octave Chanute: What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others...


galley

A representation of a single masted ship propelled by oars, with three flags and a basket. (heraldry) lymphad everything but the galley stove galleass...


mollycoddle

-ɒdəl mollycoddle (plural mollycoddles) (now rare) A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected. 1848 November – 1850 December...


captain

leader of a group of workers. John Henry said to the captain, "A man ain't nothing but a man." 1990, Marshall C. Eakin, A British Enterprise in Brazil: The...


Charlie

plural) A woman's breast 1959, Michel del Castillo, tr. Humphry Hare, The Billsticker: There's not a man she won't go with. She lets even the small boys feel...


semaphore

of communication called semaphore uses flags or flashing lights to send messages over distances. [...] Code flags are less common today but are sometimes...


standard

Middle English standard, from Old French estandart (“gathering place, battle flag”), from Frankish *standahard (literally “stand firm, stand hard”), equivalent...