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pot-walloping
▪ I. pot-ˈwalloping, n. nonce-wd. [f. pot n.1 + walloping: see wallop v.] The boiling of a pot; in quot. the sound produced by the boiler of an engine.1849 De Quincey Eng. Mail Coach §1 Wks. 1862 IV. 303 The trumpet that once announced from afar the laurelled mail..has now given way for ever to the ...
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potwalloper
potwalloper (pɒtˈwɒləpə(r)) Forms: α. 8 pot-walloner, -iner. β. 8– pot(-)walloper, 9 -wallopper, -wolloper. [One of the popular alterations of potwaller (after wallop v. to boil with agitation), which has in general use largely supplanted the original word. It is found first in De Foe's Tour, ed. 17...
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lumber
▪ I. lumber, n.1 (ˈlʌmbə(r)) Also 6 lumbor, 7 lumbar. [Prob. f. lumber v.1, which occurs much earlier. But as a lumber-house or pawnbroker's shop was in fact a storehouse for such odds and ends of property as are denominated ‘lumber’, the word was prob. at one time more or less associated with lumbe...
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wall
▪ I. wall, n.1 (wɔːl) Forms: 1 weall, weal, wall, 3–7 wal, walle, 4–7 wale, 4–6 Sc. vall, 6 Sc. val(e, (5 whalle,) 6 waule, (wawle), 8–9 Sc. wa', 3– wall. [OE. wall (WS. weall), corresp. to OFris. wal, OS. wal(l, (M)LG., (M)Du. wal, MHG. wal from MLG. (mod.G. wall), a Saxon and Anglo-Frisian adoptio...
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