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finger raise

finger raise

[′fiŋ·gər ‚rāz]
(mining engineering)
Steeply sloping openings permitting caved ore to flow down raises through grizzlies to chutes on the haulage level.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Talking to journalists here outside the Supreme Court, he warned that if the umpire's finger raises against the government than it would be against the Pakistan, adding public JIT will decide about it.
"I don't take it off." When the reporter asks if wearing a ring like that on her wedding finger raises questions, Foster responds, "Well, but that's my life.
Again, anchoring with the middle finger raises the arrow closer to your eye.
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