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stud1 1. a large-headed nail or other projection protruding from a surface, usually as decoration 2. a headless bolt that is threaded at both ends, the centre portion being unthreaded 3. any short projection on a machine, such as the metal cylinder that forms a journal for the gears on a screw-cutting lathe 4. the crossbar in the centre of a link of a heavy chain stud2 1. a group of pedigree animals, esp horses, kept for breeding purposes 2. any male animal kept principally for breeding purposes, esp a stallion 3. a farm or stable where a stud is kept 4. the state or condition of being kept for breeding purposes stud [stəd] (building construction) One of the vertical members in the walls of a framed building to which wallboards, lathing, or paneling is nailed or fastened. (design engineering) A rivet, boss, or nail with a large, ornamental head. A short rod or bolt threaded at both ends without a head. 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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| He recalled the men he had met, the clubs he had joined, his stud of horses at Newmarket, the country-houses at which he had visited. These artists will take particles of stone or glass no larger than a mustard seed, and piece them together on a sleeve button or a shirt stud, so smoothly and with such nice adjustment of the delicate shades of color the pieces bear, as to form a pigmy rose with stem, thorn, leaves, petals complete, and all as softly and as truthfully tinted as though Nature had builded it herself. There was Terrence the Magnificent--descended, as Van Horn remembered, from the American-bred Milton Droleen, out of the Queen of County Antrim, Breda Muddler, which royal bitch, as every one who is familiar with the stud book knows, goes back as far as the almost mythical Spuds, with along the way no primrose dallyings with black- and-tan Killeney Boys and Welsh nondescripts. |
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