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spare
1. a spare tyre
2. Tenpin bowling
a. the act of knocking down all the pins with the two bowls of a single frame
b. the score thus made
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Yes; but trot away now, for I've no more time to spare," said Tom, looking at his watch.
If any one of these men, or all of these men, were disposed to spare him--which is a large supposition; for what is his life, or any man's to them
It so happened that the chief of the Blackfeet party was a renegade from the Nez Perces; unlike Kosato, however, he had no vindictive rage against his native tribe, but was rather disposed, now he had got the booty, to spare all unnecessary effusion of blood.
You see I have time to spare," he resumed, when the man had replied in the negative.
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- To smell out
- To smite hip and thigh
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- To smite with the tongue
- To smoke the pipe of peace
- To snake one's toilet
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- To spin street yarn
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- To splice the main brace
- To split hairs
- To split on a rock
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- To spread cloth
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