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tallboy

A chimney pot of long and slender form, intended to improve the draft.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Keith enjoys being at the wheel of the highboy. "It's really stable, and it's cool to drive," he says.
Auto Business News-5 November 2008-Nissan unveils 32 Highboy hot rod, hybrid Altima and upgraded Pathfinder at SEMA(C)2008 ENPublishing - http://www.enpublishing.co.uk
On the aisle, its assortment is well developed, with roughly two-thirds of the TV stands in black, ranging from Z-Line's glass TV cabinet for $89.88 to Sauder's open entertainment center for $129.43, Home Trends' black TV stand for $149.93, Z-Line's highboy in chrome and black for $169.77, and Whalen Furniture's plasma TV stand in wood and glass for $229.76.
It has been her dream to see Paris, and now that the secondhand-furniture man offers her $350 for the highboy (13), she will have to persuade her husband.
Richards continues his indictment of Amelia's class: "When this is over," Richards says, "you can go back to your nice split-level duplex and light up a Doke and get stoned and love the way your new silverware sparkles in the highboy. No one fighting rats with broom handles in your neighborhood or shitting by the back stoop because the toilet doesn't work.
The highboy chair, for example, is patterned from furniture found in homes of the mid-18th century and features an intricate fan carving, black finish and traditional brass-finished batwing hardware.
He ran into the bedroom and found me screaming and trying to get from under a highboy that had fallen on to the bed.
The best of his buildings--say, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York, the Pennzoil and Transco towers in Houston, the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, the interior of the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, and even the AT&T Building in New York, with its Chippendale highboy top-are like finely constructed stage sets.
you fell backward on your heirloom-clock, the phases of the moon, the highboy quaking to its toes.
--Epic of Gilgamesh You need to know I moved your stuff into my house in case you wonder who took books and bookcases, highboy, footstool, dishes, rugs still good stuff, you would say, still some life left -- into the west room whose blue walls you liked best, the artiste's room, you teased, with its chaise longue, oriental rugs from the church rummage sale.
Not long ago, Gale finished building an ultra-slick Chrysler V-8-powered '33 Ford highboy roadster (shown above).
After Chippendale, it was a "night stand." Highboy, lowboy, lazyboy, high chest, chest-on-chest - the list goes on.
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