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deadhead [′ded‚hed] (metallurgy) The portion of a casting that fills up the ingate. (mining engineering) To begin a new cut without excavating the material from the preceding cut. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Here you entered a book of hours populated by characters from Aesop, Grimm, Perrault, Lewis Carroll, and the Great Goddess of My Body, My Self, owls mingling with cats, bats, birds, butterflies, and babies, with Red Riding Hood and the wolf, with dead heads, dead monkeys, and head frogs, with pink bosoms, self-replicating vulvas, brains, and kidneys, with bluebeards and spinning spinsters, with doilies, moons, and masses of matted hair, with Dorothy, Alice, and Emily D. Other family members, such as marigolds, need the dead heads pinched off regularly and protected from overhead sprinklers, which can break their stems. Q: How many Dead Heads does it take to change a lightbulb? |
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