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end
1. Sport either of the two defended areas of a playing field, rink, etc.
2. Bowls Curling a section of play from one side of the rink to the other
3. American football a player at the extremity of the playing line; wing

end [end]
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End
Armageddon
battleground of good and evil before Judgment Day. [N.T.: Revelation 16:16]
checkmate
end of game in chess: folk-etymology of Shah-mat, ‘the Shah is dead.’ [Br. Folklore: Espy, 217]
fatal raven
indicates defeat or victory by arranging its wings. [Norse Legend: Volsung Saga]
Judgment Day
final trial of all mankind. [N.T.: Revelation]
Last Supper
Passover dinner the night before Christ died. [N.T.: Matthew 26:26–29; Mark 14:22–25; Luke 22:14–20]


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30pm Crime drama based on the 1980 murder of cardiologist Herman Tarnower, who met a sticky end at the hands of his jilted lover Jean Harris.
In which drama did she play a detective who met a sticky end 5 Hilda Braid is at the centre of EastEnders' Christmas storyline on as Nana Moon.
The Yorkshire venue is where Villa's Premiership colleagues Manchester City met a sticky end, losing a shootout to doughty Donny, and with Spurs (at Grimsby), Porstmouth (at Gillingham) and Liverpool (at Crystal Palace) already having gone out of the competition on the road to lower opposition, the Sky cameras could be in the right place for another upset in tonight's last-16 clash.
 
 
 
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