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Eiffel Tower is London Cockney rhyming slang for shower.
Tower of Pisa is Black−American slang for leaning
Hip was used just as we use "cool" in todays language. Its an expression of stating something is groovy. Refer to the Tower of Power song "What is Hip" for a better understanding
adj poorly made; shoddy: I showed mum the Eiffel Tower model I made from matchsticks, and she just said it looked a bit shonky.
1. The armoured control tower of an iron or steel warship built between the mid-19th and mid-20th century from which the ship was navigated in battle. 2. A tower-like structure on the dorsal (topside) surface of a submarine, serving in submarines built before the mid-20th century as a connecting structure between the bridge and pressure hull and housing instruments and controls from which the periscopes were used to direct the submarine and launch torpedo attacks. Since the mid-20th century, it has been replaced by the sail (United States usage) or fin (European and British Commonwealth usage), a structure similar in appearance which no longer plays a function in directing the submarine.
n apparatus; stuff that does stuff: You put a coin in this end, and then out of here comes a model of the Eiffel Tower. I'm not really sure how the gubbins works...
Observation tower on caboose
(Acr.) (n.) Syrcus Tower
(acr.) (n.) Crystal Tower
Hip was used just as we use "cool" in todays language. Its an expression of stating something is groovy. Refer to the Tower of Power song "What is Hip" for a better understanding
1. A piece of fabric attached to a vessel and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the vessel along. 2. To use sail power to propel a vessel. 3. Take a trip in a ship. 4. In the USN, describes the tower-like structure on the dorsal (topside) surface of a submarine.
Tower Hill is London Cockney rhyming slang for to kill.
A term used in European and British Commonwealth countries for a tower-like structure on the dorsal (topside) surface of a submarine; called a sail in the United States.
Railfan so zealous that he disregards signs such as "Private," "No Admittance" and "Stay Out" on interlocking towers and other railroad structures
Tower Bridge is London Cockney rhyming slang for a fridge.
A hollow tube used to convey spoken orders, usually between the conning tower and below-decks control spaces in a warship. Very low-tech communications method, but still used as a fail-safe in times when power has failed.
Phrs. 1. Fluctuating, moving up and down. 2. Emotionally unstable
Tower (shortened from Tower Bridge) is London Cockney rhyming slang for a fridge.
Heroin (after September 11)
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A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
a.
Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.
n.
High flight; elevation.
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A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.
v. t.
To soar into.
a.
Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower.
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Adorned or defended by towers.
n.
A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
n.
A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
n.
A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.
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Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp.
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To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
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Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing.
n.
A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.
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Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.
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A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
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To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
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A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.
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