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Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 16, 2014-- dreadnought
Posted on 04/16/2014 5:12:50 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 16, 2014-- dreadnought
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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
dreadnought [ dred-nawt]
hear it pronounced
noun
1. a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets.
2. an outer garment of heavy woolen cloth.
3. a thick cloth with a long pile.
4. (slang) a heavyweight boxer
5. a person who fears nothing
Origin: From the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
1800–10; dread + nought (fear nothing)
Related forms
dreadnaught
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"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft."
--H.L. Mencken
To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...
Even though we got a dusting of the white stuff last night, you guys are not getting a snow day. So, let’s see some homework.
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:14:34 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Paraphrasing Psalm 23...
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
dreadnought.
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:16:45 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:22:40 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: TruthShallSetYouFree; MrB
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:23:40 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:24:45 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:24:52 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:25:11 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"yo)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree; MeganC
Dreadnought:
Super Dreadnought:
Ultra Dreadnought:
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:27:20 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:27:46 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: MrB
A++
Nicely done!
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:28:41 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
To: secret garden
she is just so sweet for having done that.
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:30:14 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
A+++
A couple of more years of this Regime and we'll all be speaking Muslim.
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:30:20 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
To: KC_Lion
A+++
Excellent graphic!
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:31:17 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
To: xsmommy
I dread lox without a bagel and cream cheese.
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:32:19 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
To: hobbes1
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:32:43 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Someone say "Dread"?
To: KC_Lion
Outstanding graphics! If you’re trying to get on the teacher’s good side, it’s working! (Although direct wire transfers to my account work a little bit better...)
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:34:39 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
To: KC_Lion
Dreadnought
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:36:05 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
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