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Railway Post Office unit, usually at or near the railroad station, where mail is removed from sacks, sorted, and forwarded to its ultimate destination
Brakeman who handles trains by himself with the road engine around a big passenger terminal
Large hand truck with high cast-iron wheels used to transfer milk cans around in a terminal
A shipment of mail consigned to a certain R.P.O. terminal office for sorting and reshipment in other sacks
A trainman who is at the home terminal and off duty is in
The noseup landing posture normal for most land-based aircraft. Carrier jets eliminate flare in favor of a slamming contact with the deck. Also the terminal portion of a helicopter autorotation in which rotor speed can be accelerated while reducing rate-of-descent and forward groundspeed.
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Four-wheel electric truck that carries baggage around inside a terminal. Also unregulated private automobile that carried passengers on public highways for 5-cent fare in direct competition with trolley cars
Telegraph instrument or trainman's or switchman's light, which is also called bug torch. Bug may also be a three-wheeled electric truck that carries mail and baggage around terminals
When a trainman is at a point other than his home terminal, either on or off duty, he is out
Four to six hand trucks placed in formation beside the door of a storage car to facilitate the separation of the mail and parcels being unloaded. Each truck is loaded with matter to be transferred to other trains or to the R.P.O. (Railway Post Office) terminal office
Baggage car or (in rush periods) Railway Express car containing a mixed shipment of parcels and mail sacks consigned to a certain terminal for sorting and rerouting to various destinations via other trains
Any employee (usually a fireman) who services engines, especially at division points and terminals. Also called ashpit engineer
Pornography. Used as e.g. "Neil's got some grot in his locker. He's showing it at first break". This use developed from 'grotty', itself a contraction of the word 'grotesque'. Though an old term, 'grot' was given a new lease on life and popularised by the late great Leonard Rossiter in his Reginald Perrin persona who in one comedic series was shown to make a fortune from a chain of shops called 'Grot' that sold goods with terminally built in obscelescence, i.e. they sold rubbish.
Switch engine hauling cars from one yard to another at the same terminal. Also the operator of an electric truck that transfers baggage and mail around a terminal
A 'sconner' was a person who had failed to begin the growth of pubic hair. This word was only really got used by the nine to twelve age group, as everyone over that age had pretty much got over of puberty, and had moved on to the sexual frustration and terminal boredom of adolescence. I'd love to know if kids at my old school still say it, I do hope the pubeless baton has been passed down through the years. In extreme cases, boys who were targetted as 'sconners' would pull down their trousers in order to display their repost. Kids are fucking barmy aren't they? Also : General term of abuse to describe kids in your class who were known to have not yet developed pubic hair. Ie: "you know that Bob Smith, he's a right sconner". It would seem that this word is exclusively used within the Black Country, not even venturing as far as Birmingham or Coventry!
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The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain.
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Either of the ends of the conducting circuit of an electrical apparatus, as an inductorium, dynamo, or electric motor, usually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole.
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One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.
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The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca.
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That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.
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The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot.
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One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.
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Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Terminal.
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One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
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Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
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Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge.
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A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.
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The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump.
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The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
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A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3.
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Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genus Stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha.
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That which terminates or ends; termination; extremity.
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The terminal part of the oviduct in insects and various other invertebrates. See Illust., of Spermatheca.
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Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike.
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A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit.
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