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  • 1Old Time Rock and Roll — Single by Bob Seger from the album Stranger in Town …

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  • 2That — That, pron., a., conj., & adv. [AS. [eth][ae]t, neuter nom. & acc. sing. of the article (originally a demonstrative pronoun). The nom. masc. s[=e], and the nom. fem. se[ o] are from a different root. AS. [eth][ae]t is akin to D. dat, G. das, OHG …

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  • 3Old Sycamore Hospital — U.S. Historic district Contributing property …

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  • 4Saw pit — A saw pit or sawpit is a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed with a long two handled saw by two men, one standing above the timber and the other below. [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sawpit sawpit ] and… …

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  • 5Old Nichol — Part of Charles Booth s poverty map showing the Old Nichol in the East End of London. Published 1889 in Life and Labour of the People in London. The red areas are middle class, well to do , light blue areas are “poor, 18s to 21s a week for a… …

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  • 6old — adjective 1 USED OR NOT NEW having existed for a long time, or having been used a lot before: an old winter coat | a big old house | an old saying | My car s older than yours. | be (as) old as the hills (=be extremely old) 2 NOT YOUNG having… …

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  • 7saw — saw1 sawer, n. sawlike, adj. /saw/, n., v., sawed, sawed or sawn, sawing. n. 1. a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth. 2. any similar tool or device, as a rotating disk, in which a sharp… …

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  • 8saw´like´ — saw1 «s», noun, verb, sawed, sawed or sawn, saw|ing. –n. 1. a tool for cutting, made of a thin blade with sharp teeth on the edge: »Workmen use saws to cut wood, stone, metal, plastics, and other material (Arthur C. Ansley) …

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  • 9saw´er — saw1 «s», noun, verb, sawed, sawed or sawn, saw|ing. –n. 1. a tool for cutting, made of a thin blade with sharp teeth on the edge: »Workmen use saws to cut wood, stone, metal, plastics, and other material (Arthur C. Ansley) …

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  • 10saw — saw1 [so: US so:] the past tense of ↑see saw 2 saw2 n [: Old English; Origin: sagu] 1.) a tool that you use for cutting wood. It has a flat blade with an edge cut into many V shapes 2.) a short, familiar phrase or sentence that is considered to… …

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