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The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung
across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder. |
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To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or
path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler. |
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To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to
superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence
intellectually or morally; to train. |
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A person who leads or directs another in his way or
course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to
strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook. |
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One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or
course of lifo; a director; a regulator. |
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Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge,
surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as
water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand
or eye, as of an operator |
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A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the
wheel buckets. |
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A grooved director for a probe or knife. |
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A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the
line of copy he is setting. |
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A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the
directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the
end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments
in tactics. |