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1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet i, in New Monthly Mag. May 121 She was deaf as any tradesman's dummy.

1850 W. M. Thackeray Hobson's Choice ii, in Wks. (1886) XXIV. 228 A dark green suit..purchased at an establishment in Holborn, off the dummy at the door.

1851 Illustr. London News 53 Attempted to jump on to the ‘dummy’ before the vessel had got quite alongside.

1856 S. C. Brees Terms & Rules Archit. Dumby, a floating barge connected with a pier.

1857 A. Mathews Tea-table Talk I. 341 Like the dummies on a young lawyer's shelf.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Dummy..a name given by firemen to the jets from the mains or chief water pipes.

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Dummy, 1. A dumb-waiter (Colloq.)..5. A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam.

1870 Illustr. London News 24 Sept. 327 On Friday the small gun was again fired, at various ranges, from 1200 down to 400 yards, at targets and at dummies..making the same targets and producing the like destructive effect among the dummies.

1871 Daily News 28 Apr. (Farmer) The Bill is not yet in the hands of members or public, the document placed on the table of the Lords being what is, in parliamentary slang, called a ‘dummy’.

1893 Leeds Mercury 19 May 5/2 Mr. Acland..laid the new Evening School Code in dummy form on the table of the House of Commons.

1898 A. J. Balfour in Hansard Commons 20 June 768 The Report has been presented in dummy, and is now being proceeded with.

1929 F. W. Carter Secrets of your Daily Paper 59 They are supplied with what is known as a ‘dummy’ or a ‘make-up’.

1964 Gloss. Letterpress Rotary Print. Terms (B.S.I.) 12 Dummies, blank or printed copies usually made up for editorial or production purposes.

1967 Times Rev. Industry Aug. 69/1 A mammoth Encyclopaedia of Education, the dummy of which looks most impressive even though not all the contents are in it.