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[ shahrps ] / ʃɑrps /
nouna single-shot, lever-action breechloader rifle patented in the U.S. in 1848 and adopted by the U.S. military in the 1850s. Origin of Sharpsafter Christian Sharps (1811–74), U.S. gunsmith, who invented it Words nearby Sharpssharp-freeze, sharpie, sharpish, sharp-nosed, sharp practice, Sharps, Sharpsburg, sharp-set, sharp-shinned hawk, sharpshooter, sharp-sighted Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for SharpsFeather had recorded as a pianist, and although he would never put Oscar Peterson out of business, he knew his sharps and flats. Music Criticism Has Degenerated Into Lifestyle Reporting|Ted Gioia|March 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST I shuffle through the sheet music, avoiding tunes in keys with more than two sharps or flats, until I hit on “Old Shanghai.” Beck’s Album ‘Song Reader’ Is All Sheet Music. We Take It for a Spin|Malcolm Jones|December 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST We waste untold time and untold millions of dollars on a tedious fixation with blades and sharps. What Pilots Fear|Patrick Smith|September 3, 2009|DAILY BEAST A “chromatic scale” is thus a series of semi-tones, and is commonly written with sharps in ascending and flats descending. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3|Various
Speaking of the formation of scales, he says: "Thus we have another perfectly natural scale by making use of two sharps." Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878|Various But suppose she has to leave school for setting that fire in Mr. Sharps office? The Girls of Central High|Gertrude W. Morrison Blunts, needles of a short and thick shape, distinguished from Sharps, which are long and slender. A Treatise on Domestic Economy|Catherine Esther Beecher The members are all armed with the Springfield and Sharps army carbine. Then and Now|Robert Vaughn
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