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Barlow

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Bar·low  (bärl), Joel 1754-1812.
American poet and diplomat in Algiers (1795-1797). Among his noted poetic works are "The Hasty Pudding" (1796) and the epic Columbiad (1807).
bar·low  (bärl)
n.
An inexpensive, one- or two-bladed pocketknife.
[After Barlow, the family name of its makers, two brothers in Sheffield, England.]


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This elaborate epistle he articulated as if it were all one word; and Miss Barlow rattled it down as if it were all one word.
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
True, the knife would not cut anything, but it was a "sure-enough" Barlow, and there was inconceivable grandeur in that -- though where the Western boys ever got the idea that such a weapon could possibly be counterfeited to its injury is an imposing mystery and will always remain so, perhaps.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
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