Lister
['lɪstə] or ['lɪstɚ]
Definition
(noun.) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow.
(noun.) assessor who makes out the tax lists.
(noun.) English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912).
Typist: Rodger--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.
(n.) One who makes a list or roll.
(n.) Same as Leister.
Inputed by Hubert
Definition
n. a form of plough for throwing up ridges.—n. List′ing.
Typist: Malcolm
Examples
- But the truth of Lister, Modesto, and El Campesino was much better than the lies and legends. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Out of the knowledge of disease germs has grown the great era of antiseptic surgery, inaugurated by Sir Joseph Lister, about 1865. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We are building a huge army now and some of the elements, those of Modesto, of El Campesino, of Lister and of Dur醤, are reliable. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- So have Lister and Modesto and others. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- From what I have seen of him, I wonder how Lister will be at that once the dual controls are gone? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What sons of bitches from Cortez, Pizarro, Men閚dez de Avila all down through Enrique Lister to Pablo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He was much more intelligent than Lister or El Campesino. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But Lister and Campesino and Modesto had been told many of the moves they should make by their Russian military advisers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Lister is a Gallego from the same town as Franco. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- At Gaylord's, too, you met the simple stonemason, Enrique Lister from Galicia, who now commanded a division and who talked Russian, too. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He knew the horrors of purulent infection in military hospitals, and regretted that the principles of Pasteur and Lister were not more fully applied. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Dr. Lister is of opinion that the material cause of thunder, lightning, and earthquakes, is one and the same, viz. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Lister was murderous in discipline. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Editor: Maynard