Billy
['bɪli]
['bɪlɪ] or ['bɪli]
Definition
(n.) A club; esp., a policeman's club.
(n.) A slubbing or roving machine.
Typed by Damian
Definition
n. a comrade a companion-in-arms: an Australian bushman's boiling-pan or tea-pot:—pl. Bill′ies.—n. Bill′y-goat a he-goat.
Checker: Otis
Examples
- In 1813 Puffing Billy was built by Wm. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Even in the neighborhood of the mines people soon grew used to seeing Puffing Billy, as the engine was called, traveling back and forth from the pit to the quay, and took it quite for granted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Billy's face was wide and grinning, but there was a great solemnity of being good in his round blue eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You know Fanny is FRIGHTFULLY in love with that painter, Billy Macfarlane. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But Billy went softly forward, slow and willing, lifting his pinched-up mouth implicitly to be kissed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Billy seemed angelic like a cherub boy, or like an acolyte, Birkin was a tall, grave angel looking down to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Chanticleer isn't in it--even Fanny Bath, who is GENUINELY in love with Billy Macfarlane! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checker: Raymond