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单词 pocket piece
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pocket piece


noun

(in a window frame) a removable part of a pulley stile permitting access to sash weights.

Origin of pocket piece

First recorded in 1700–10

Words nearby pocket piece

pocketing, pocketknife, pocket money, pocket mouse, pocket park, pocket piece, pocket secretary, pocket-size, pocket-square, pocket veto, pockies
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Example sentences from the Web for pocket piece

  • It had been only a bauble, a pocket-piece acquired he knew not when or how; now he knew it for the badge of his calling.

    Satan Sanderson|Hallie Erminie Rives
  • His hand wandered to his pocket, where lay the one wax wafer he had kept as a pocket-piece.

    Satan Sanderson|Hallie Erminie Rives
  • It was a Mexican dollar, dated the year of his birth, and he had for years carried it as a pocket-piece.

    Patty's Perversities|Arlo Bates
  • She says that she has a "pocket-piece" for each one of her most intimate friends in New York.

    The Lightning Conductor|C. N. Williamson
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