sooty little negro, who placed within his grasp a misshapen fold of dirty paper, […] 1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and...
/ˈbeɪɡ/ Rhymes: -æɡ bag (plural bags) A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities...
ointment fly killer fly line fly on the wall fly orchid fly-paper fly paper flypaper fly-papered fly powder fly rail fly-rod fly rod fly screen fly-sheet...
(“hem, edge, strip”), or Old French liste, listre (“border; band; strip of paper; list”), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-West Germanic *līstā, from...
a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls. 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings: Soon...
cloven foot show the cloven hoof show the flag show the ropes show the way show the white feather show the white flag show-through show up show what one is...
deathblow, death blow death book death by a thousand cuts death by a thousand paper cuts death by chocolate death by cop death by misadventure death by PowerPoint...
their ends. (printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed...
gun metal, gun-metal, gunmetal gun money gunner, gunnery gun nut gun paper, gun-paper gun pit gunplay gunpoint gunport gunpowder, gun powder gun range gun...
device to stop operating) (uncountable) a game in which the players write on paper one word from each category (animal, fruit, etc.), all beginning with the...