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• Cornet

  ·noun A headdress. II. Cornet ·noun ·see <<Coronet>>, 2. III. Cornet ·noun The standard of such a ...

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• Cornet

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• cornet

  A commissioned officer who carries the colours belonging to a cavalry troop, equivalent to an ensign...

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• Cornet

  (Heb. shophar), a loud-sounding instrument, made of the horn of a ram or a chamois (sometimes of an ...

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• Walking

  ·- ·adj & ·noun from Walk, v. II. Walking ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Walk>>. ...

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• walking poulterer

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• walking stationer

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• walking-leaf

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• walking-stick

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• walking ticket

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• walking papers

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• Cornet-a-piston

  ·noun A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sli...

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• walking the plank

  A mode of destroying devoted persons or officers in a mutiny or ship-board, by blindfolding them, an...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• palm, walking-stick

  n. a Queensland plant, Bacularia monostachya, F. v. M., N.O. Palmeae.So called because the stem is ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• walking-stick palm

  n. See under palm, walking-stick. ...

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• walking a plank

  An obsolete method of destroying people in mutiny and piracy, under a plea of avoiding the penalty o...

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• walking speaking-trumpet

  A midshipman repeating quarter-deck orders. ...

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• walking up against the wall

  To run up a score, which in alehouses is commonly recorded with chalk on the walls of the bar. ...

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• walking away with the anchor

  Said of a ship which is dragging, or shouldering, her anchor; or when, from fouling the stock or upp...

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