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The Oxford Companion to the Book

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Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Social sciences
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26 words

Dollar sign, denoting ‘all the *signatures’; used in *collational formulas with a figure indicating number of signed leaves per gathering in a book....

20a The History of the Book in Britain, c.1475–1800

20a The History of the Book in Britain, c.1475–1800   Reference library

Andrew Murphy

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
6,077 words
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
1 Origins 2 The Stationers’ Company 3 Beyond London 4 MS circulation and ... More
43a The History of the Book in Southeast Asia (1): The Islands

43a The History of the Book in Southeast Asia (1): The Islands   Reference library

Edwin Paul Wieringa

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Social sciences
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2,585 words
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Oxford University Press
Illustration(s):
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1 General introduction 2 Writing systems 3 Dating systems 4 Book forms ... More
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A-10A   Reference library

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

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Current Version:
2002
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
43 words
a heavily armored plane designed to destroy tanks and constructed around its powerful 30 mm gun and enormous munitions drum. Its wide combat radius and short takeoff and landing ability ... More
A-bracket

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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2007
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
23 words

the triangular bracket that extends from the hull of a powered vessel to give support to the propeller shafts.

See also ...

a-burton

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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2007
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
107 words

a term used in the old days of seafaring in the stowage of casks in the hold of a ship when they are laid ...

a-hull

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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2007
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
34 words

the condition of a sailing vessel which is obliged, because of heavy weather, to heave to under bare poles with its helm ...

a-lee

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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2007
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
71 words
the position of the helm of a vessel when it has been pushed down to leeward. ‘Helm's a-lee’ is the response of the helmsman of a sailing vessel after putting the helm down on the order to ... More
a-trip

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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)

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2007
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
82 words

An anchor is said to be a-trip at the moment of weighing when it is broken out of the ground by the pull of the ...

a-weigh

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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2007
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Length:
48 words
the situation of the anchor at the moment it is broken out of the ground when being weighed. When the anchor is a-weigh the ship is no longer secured to the ground and will drift unless ... More
A–Z

A–Z   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
193 words

London street atlas, created by Phyllis Isobel Pearsall (1906–96) in 1936. Finding herself lost in the capital, and that its last street map was made in ...

AA

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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

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Current Version:
2002
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
3 words

antiaircraft.

Aa, Pieter van der

Aa, Pieter van der (1659–1733)   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
195 words
The son of a German stonecutter from Holstein, van der Aa began his career at Leiden in 1683 as a Latin trade publisher, specializing in classical texts and academic books on medicine and ... More
AAA

AAA abbr.   Reference library

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2002
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
4 words

antiaircraft artillery.

Aachen

Aachen   Reference library

Charles Messenger

The Oxford Companion to World War II

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
127 words

German city situated close to the Dutch and Belgian borders, the scene of the first major battle fought by Eisenhower

Aachen, Siege of

Aachen, Siege of   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
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495 words

Following the death in 1247 of Henry Raspe, who had been the rival of the excommunicated Emperor Frederick II,

Aachen, Battle of

Aachen, Battle of   Reference library

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

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Current Version:
2002
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
60 words
(October 1944) a World War II battle in which Aachen became the first German city to fall to Allied forces. U.S. forces encircled Aachen and entered to find bitter resistance, despite ... More
AADC

AADC abbr.   Reference library

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2002
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
6 words

area air defense commander.

AAF

AAF abbr.   Reference library

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2002
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
5 words

Army Air Force(s).

Aardvark

Aardvark   Reference library

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2002
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
11 words

a two-seat twin-engine aircraft used as an attack/strike plane.

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