10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROUGH SPIN»
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rough spin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
1872, 'A most unhappy spin (OED). Ware dates it from 70 years earlier.—3. 'A
piece of experience (always with an adjective: “rough spin”, “fair spin”, etc.) [?
From spin for the toss of a coin, OED 1882, or spin in various uses implying
duration, ...
2
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
123, 1988 • YOU guys want to go for a spin?— Dazed and Confused, 1993 3 a
period of time considered in terms of how you fared during it; an experience; a
time of it AUSTRALIA, 1917 • Anyway, I'd had a bit of a rough spin over here
before, ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
3
Hortus Woburnensis: A Descriptive Catalogue of Ornamental ...
Br.Fl. smooth. piiinatif.tooth.rough,spin.cr. 7. 8. □ .... H.U. □ pratonsis. Br.Fl.
meadow. sess.lan.cotto.bcn.prickl. pu. 6. 7. .... H.J). [sfss. Recep. fleshy.
ONOPORDUM, COTTON-THISTLE. Col. swelling, the scales spread, and
spinous. Ger. obov.
4
Molecular Imaging of the Brain: Using Sodium Multi-Quantum ...
... tissues, etc., in the brain. However an effort at grass roots level is made in this
work in that direction. To keep it simple explanation is made by reference to
diagrams drawn. It is a rough spin model picture of the brain MRI that is exposed
here.
M. M. Kaila, Rakhi Kaila, 2012
5
Bob Bondurant on Police and Pursuit Driving
Once at rest, the violator can be blocked from escape by other responding
vehicles, end up simply stuck in the sand or mud, or be sufficiently intimidated by
the rough spin-out to give up the flight. When performed at urban traffic speeds,
the ...
Bob Bondurant Edwin J. Sanow
6
'A Most Unremarkable War'
He stood his first trip into the line well but was fortunate in missing the last. We
had a very rough spin but Fritzy got the roughest of it. The weather was almost as
big an enemy as Fritzy, we were back into the mud conditions in a very short time.
My belief is that Lady Elizabeth had a rough spin with Athena in March, when the
Days discovered she had lost her form — n very common occurrence with fillies
which have been severely trained at two years old ; that when the discovery was
...
With a rough spin of the wheelAlex pulled overtothe shoulder and gotout;he
stared towards the small city that rose upa mile orso beyond thefreeway. His
spine chilled. Jesus, hecould actually see them: a shiftingcloud of whitethat hung
overthe ...
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Hawke: The Early Years: The Early Years
I guessed she must have had a rough spin.' Of necessity, with all but those whom
she knew she could trust, Hazel had turned into a tigress. Ducker, who took his
family on the same cruise ship as the Hawkes after the 1972 election, said: 'It ...
In the centre we got a glimpse of a woman they were dragging along and she
was certainly getting a rough spin. She must have been quite good-looking, but
her face was all scratched now and one old dame in particular kept grabbing her
by ...
