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one-armed

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Adj.1.one-armed - having one arm; "a one-armed veteran"
armed - having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination; "the many-armed goddess Shiva"
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one-armed [ˈwʌnˈɑːmd]
A. ADJmanco
B. CPD one-armed bandit Nmáquina f tragamonedas, máquina f tragaperras(Sp)
one-armed [ˌwʌnˈɑːmd] adjcon un braccio solo
one-armed [ˌwʌnˈɑːmd] adjcon un braccio solo


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How it was exactly, continued the one-armed commander, I do not know; but in biting the line, it got foul of his teeth, caught there somehow; but we didn't know it then; so that when we afterwards pulled on the line, bounce we came plump on to his hump
Only the man who had the next bed, a stout Uhlan, continued to sit on his bed, gloomily frowning and smoking a pipe, and little one-armed Tushin still listened, shaking his head disapprovingly.
Why, I've seen Kentuckians who hated whiskey, Virginians who weren't descended from Pocahontas, Indianians who hadn't written a novel, Mexicans who didn't wear velvet trousers with silver dollars sewed along the seams, funny Englishmen, spendthrift Yankees, cold-blooded Southerners, narrow- minded Westerners, and New Yorkers who were too busy to stop for an hour on the street to watch a one-armed grocer's clerk do up cranberries in paper bags.
 
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