lewissonn.
= lewis n.1
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1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 994 Lewis or Lewisson, an instrument..used by the builders of the middle ages to raise stones..to the upper part of a building.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 328 This breakwater is moored by lewising bolts [etc.].
1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
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n.1842- come down on like a thousand of brick
- come down on like a thousand of bricks
- come down on like a ton of bricks
- come down the pike
- come down to brass nails
- come down to brass tacks
- come down to cases
- come down to tin tacks
- come down upon a person like a ton of bricks
- come down upon like a ton of bricks
- come down with the money
- come down with the money dust
- come down with the money etc
- come down with the money needful
- come etc a gutser
- come etc a pretty pass
- come etc out of thin air
- come etc place
- come etc with flying colours
- come evil to pass
- come expensive
- come fair
- come fall a cropper
- come fall under, within, beyond, out of the cognizance
- come fetch a gutser