Col
[kɒl] or [kɑl]
Definition
(n.) A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.
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Definition
n. (geog.) a depression or pass in a mountain-range.
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Examples
- Roy Stone Artillery Brigade, Col. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The earliest, most successful demonstrations of screw propellers and paddle wheels in steam vessels in the century were the construction and use of a boat with twin screws by Col. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At the same time that Fulton was in Paris making his first experiments with the steamboat, Col. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Although the first trip out to sea was made in 1808 by Col. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Associated with General Palmer was one Col. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Provisional Brigade, Col. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In 1878 it was resumed by appropriation from Congress, and completed and dedicated in 1885, under the direction of Col. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Monsieur va me tuer, je suis s?re; car il est d'une colère! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Edison was sent to England to make the demonstration, in 1873, reporting there to Col. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He r efers to the shocking but unquestionable fact, that [in the latter struggle] all the women who appear above twenty years old are massacred in col d blood! Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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