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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
  • A forcible oath or lie.
  • A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered.
  • A performer of rap music
  • ''obsolete:'' Scottish English word for "sword."
  • One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.

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