(work persistently)

  • 1Order of Friars Minor —     Order of Friars Minor     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Order of Friars Minor     (Also known as FRANCISCANS.) This subject may be conveniently considered under the following heads:     I. General History of the Order;     A. First Period (1209… …

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  • 2slog — slÉ‘g /slÉ’g n. forceful hit, hard blow; hard laborious work; long exhausting walk v. hit hard; progress slowly and ploddingly; work persistently, toil …

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  • 3slogged — slÉ‘g /slÉ’g n. forceful hit, hard blow; hard laborious work; long exhausting walk v. hit hard; progress slowly and ploddingly; work persistently, toil …

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  • 4slogging — slÉ‘g /slÉ’g n. forceful hit, hard blow; hard laborious work; long exhausting walk v. hit hard; progress slowly and ploddingly; work persistently, toil …

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  • 5slogs — slÉ‘g /slÉ’g n. forceful hit, hard blow; hard laborious work; long exhausting walk v. hit hard; progress slowly and ploddingly; work persistently, toil …

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  • 6Old Catholic church — Any of a group of Western Catholic churches that separated from Rome after the First Vatican Council promulgated the doctrine of papal infallibility (1869–70). Old Catholic churches in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, and… …

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  • 7industry — noun a) The tendency to work persistently. Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy. b) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry… …

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  • 8peg — [[t]pɛg[/t]] n. v. pegged, peg•ging, adj. 1) bui a cylindrical or tapered pin of wood, metal, etc., driven or fitted into something as a fastening, support or stopper 2) a notch or degree: to come down a peg[/ex] 3) an occasion, basis, or reason …

    From formal English to slang

  • 9peg — /pɛg / (say peg) noun 1. a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point. 2. Colloquial a leg, sometimes one… …

  • 10hammer away — work hard and persistently. → hammer …

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