blade - the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge clipper - scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural) compound lever - a pair of levers hinged at the fulcrum edge tool - any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel ...
After the first V1 fell, the North London Press front page thundered: ‘The German “secret weapon” is no longer a secret. It is just another mistake of Hitler and his Huns, who hoped the break the unbreakable – the staunch morale of the Britishers. The flying bombs have destroyed som...
, phr, na gows a-dreus! argument, n, a‧rgument (m), argumentys (pl); dadhel (f), dadhlow (pl). arid, adj, sygh; segh (RLC). arm, n, (body part) bregh (f), brehow (pl); diwvregh (dl); (weapon) arv (f), arvow (pl); to take up arms, vb, arva. ...
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Romanticism fueled the fire of the conservation movement—a movement that had an increasingly powerful weapon at its disposal: the Progressives’ collectivist, bureaucratic machinery. The result? According to Gates, “The democratic individualism of the ninet...
Though vastly outnumbered by a better trained and better equipped British military, Washington’s Continental Army now held more firmly than ever a weapon that would win the war: righteous, moral fervor. Such was the power of Thomas Jefferson’s words. ...
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Abeywardena was to also ensure that there would be no mention of a weapon used and therefore no charges under the Firearms Ordinance could be filed thereby literally letting the club bully Malaka get bail as a matter of course.Abeywardena who was due to retire last Friday (14) was ...