Continental drive

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• Continental

  ·adj Of or pertaining to a continent. II. Continental ·noun A soldier in the Continental army, or a...

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• Drive

  ·vi To distrain for rent. II. Drive ·p.p. <<Driven>>. III. Drive ·add. ·noun A tamping iron. IV. ...

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• Continental glacier

  ·add. ·- A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central neve, ...

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• Continental pronunciation

  ·add. ·- A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Contin...

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• Continental system

  ·add. ·- The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continen...

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• Full-drive

  ·adv With full speed. ...

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• to drive well

  A Southern phrase, thus explained by Mr. Lavis: This gentleman applied for a situation as teacher in...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• full drive

  At full speed. A very common and very old phrase. This bargain is full-drive, for we ben knit; Ye ...

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• drive, to

  [from the Anglo-Saxon dryfan]. A ship drives when her anchor trips or will not hold. She drives to...

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• full drive

  Fully direct; impetuous violence. ...

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• to drive a bargain

  To make a bargain. A common colloquial expression, as old as the language. This bargain is ful dr...

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• to let drive

  to let fly; to let slip. To discharge; let loose a blow with the fist, a stone, a bullet from a gun,...

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• let drive, to

  To slip or let fly. To discharge, as a shot from a gun. ...

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• London and Continental Steam Wharf

  At 83 to 97 Lower East Smithfield, west of the Hermitage Entrance (P.O. Directory). First mention: ...

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• Carron and London and Continental Steam Wharves, Carron Co

  A Wharf on the Thames in East Smithfield, east of Alderman Stairs at 87 to 93 Lower East Smithfield ...

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