apple fritter, beignet aux pommes, con man, cruller, doughnut, fraud, hurricane, mountebank, raised doughnut, sand column, sinker, trickster, whirlblast
Definitionn. a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
Last update: July 25, 2015
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All textile work was done by hand; the only devices known were the bark peeler and beater, the shredder, the flint-knife, the spindle, the rope-twister, the bodkin, the warp-beam and the most primitive harness. [Please select]
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Black Tom was there, new thatching the back of the house, and Cæsar was making sugganes (straw rope) for him with a twister. [Please select]
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"So he has," shouted Cæsar, "and not second Dempster only, but first Dempster itself in time, and go on with the twister." [Please select]
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Wooden rope-twister without handle, used mostly in the manufacture of hair riatas. [Please select]
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"Another twister"--she said woefully--"just when we were getting along so beautifully, too." [Please select]
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So saying, she flung the twister on the floor and rushed out of the mill, sobbing hysterically. [Please select]
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This rhyme is famous as a "tongue twister," or enunciation exercise. [Please select]
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"Old Wabash is a twister for curvin' and windin' round, an' it's limestone bed half the way, an' the water's as pretty an' clear as in Maria's springhouse."' [Please select]
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When a twister a-twisting would twist him a twist, For twisting a twist three twists he will twist; But if one of the twists untwists from the twist, The twist untwisting untwists the twist. [Please select]
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