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A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.
Next Worda.
Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. →
n.
An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal. →
n.
The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw. →