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pocket piece

noun

  1. (in a window frame) a removable part of a pulley stile permitting access to sash weights.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pocket piece1

First recorded in 1700–10
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Example Sentences

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“Numismatic researchers widely agree that it is almost certainly George Washington’s own pocket piece,†Halperin said.

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There go four dollars' worth of dough and my pocket piece.

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Mr. Braddy, after some fumbling, produced the dollar, a dog-eared wallet, a tin watch, a patent cigar cutter, a pocket piece from a pickle exhibit at the World's Fair in Chicago, and some cigar coupons.

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"Hold," said I, "there is Queen Ann's Pocket Piece, as it is called, it will soon be opposite, and then we'll show them what we can do."

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One, called "Queen Ann's Pocket Piece" still preserved at Dover, is twenty-five feet long and carries a ball only twenty-five pounds in weight.

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