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Webster 1913 Edition


Dolly

Dol′ly

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Noun.
;
pl.
Dollies
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1.
(Mining)
A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
2.
(Mach.)
A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
Knight.
3.
In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
4.
A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
5.
A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.

Dol′ly

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Noun.
A child’s mane for a doll.
Dolly shop
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a shop where rags, old junk, etc., are bought and sold; usually, in fact, an unlicensed pawnbroker's shop, formerly distinguished by the sign of a black doll.
[England]

Definition 2024


Dolly

Dolly

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English

Proper noun

Dolly

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy, and later also of Dolores.
  2. (poker) Dolly Parton

Quotations

  • 1989 John Banville: The Book of Evidence. page 41:
    Her name is Dorothy, though everyone has always called her Dolly. I do not know why, for there is nothing doll-like about her. She is a large, vigorous woman with the broad face and heavy hair of a tinker's wife.

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Noun

dolly (plural dollies)

  1. A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
  2. A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
  3. In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
  4. A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
  5. A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
  6. (film) A specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted.
  7. (childish, colloquial) A doll.
  8. (slang) A young woman, especially one who is frivolous or vapid.
    • 1978, John McGrath, Yobbo nowt (page 39)
      But really you get your money from selling things that's your line, and your Dad's isn't it? Using sexy dollies to con money out of people who've had to work for it. Well my daughter's not just a sugar-plum fairy to titillate men's fantasies, you know.
    • 1996, Billboard (number 45, page 24)
      This glorious collection should be passed around clubland as a textbook study in making a seamless transition from being a disco dolly to a serious pop vocalist.
  9. (cricket) A ball hit by a batsman such that it goes gently to a fielder for a simple catch.

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Verb

dolly (third-person singular simple present dollies, present participle dollying, simple past and past participle dollied)

  1. (transitive, cricket) To hit a dolly.
  2. To move an object using a dolly.

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