Crossword clues for tallboy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Highboy \High"boy`\, n.
One who lives high; also, in politics, a highflyer.
A kind of tall chest of drawers, with drawers up to near or above eye level and fouyr legs at the base; it is often divided into lower and upper sections, with the lower section somewhat wider than the upper; also called a tallboy. Compare lowboy. [U. S.] ``Mahogany highboys glittering with brass handles.''
--K. L. Bates.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A tall chest of drawers, or combination of chest on chest, or chest with a small wardrobe on top. Usually with low bracket feet but always resulting in a tall piece of furniture. 2 (context US English) A tall can of beer, either 16 ounces or one half litre. 3 (context nautical English) A kind of sail, a spanker. 4 A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup. 5 A long sheet metal pipe for a chimney top.
WordNet
n. a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs [syn: highboy]
Wikipedia
Tallboy, or Bomb, Medium Capacity, 12,000 lb, was an earthquake bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis and deployed by the RAF in 1944, at five long tons and carried by the Avro Lancaster. It was effective against hardened structures against which prior, smaller bombs had proven ineffective.
Tallboy or tall boy may refer to:
- Tallboy (furniture), a piece of furniture incorporating a chest of drawers and a wardrobe
- Tallboy bomb, a deep penetration earthquake bomb designed by Barnes Wallis
- Spanker (sail), a type of sail also known as a tallboy
- Tallboy beer can, a 24 oz beer can in the United States
- Airdancer, an inflatable moving advertising product originally called the Tall Boy
A tallboy is a piece of furniture incorporating a chest of drawers and a wardrobe on top. A highboy consists of double chest of drawers (a chest-on-chest), with the lower section usually wider than the upper. A lowboy is a table-height set of drawers designed to hold a clothes chest, which had been the predominant place one stored clothes for many centuries.
Usage examples of "tallboy".
Tallboy and Miss Meteyard were standing, waiting for Harry to return and waft them to their sphere of toil above.
One of these Frank kept positioned exactly facing the massive speakers of his elaborate hi-fi system, its working parts concealed inside a birchwood Biedermeier tallboy that had been disembowelled to accommodate it.
Tun Goldhorn guided the Coors beer truck to a stop near the store, and while cartons of six-packs, tallboys, and quintos were going into the Rael coolers, along came the Trailways bus.
Tallboy corrected the misprints, damned their eyes for using the wrong name-block, made it clear to them that they had set the headlines in the wrong fount, cut the proof to pieces, pasted it up again into the correct size and returned it.
I thought of fishermen standing on the concrete freighter docks with their bait buckets and tallboys, the baseball game on the radio.
They sat there in silence finishing up their second tallboys, moving into thirds.
He found five in the tallboy, and then he began on the workboxes, seven more in there.
He fetched the old brass bedlamp and put it on the tallboy to give him light, and in its yellow radiance, mated with dust, he explored the archives of Mrs Lyle's long life.
Under this roof – or these roofs – were miles of rare books, acres of valuable carpet, a veritable Louvre of paintings and statuary, a bull's dream of china and glass, and enough armoires, commodes, tallboys, chiffoniers, secretaries, wardrobes, rolltop desks and cellarets to fill every harem in the world.
Even before the Valley Star truck had sloshed out of the muck near Rael's front porch, Tun Goldhorn guided the Coors beer truck to a stop near the store, and while cartons of six-packs, tallboys, and quintos were going into the Rael coolers, along came the Trailways bus.
Snuffy went through a few complicated contortions to regain his feet, wavered unsteadily for a moment, then wove back into the store to sign up for another six-pack of tallboys, some Slim Jim sausages, and a package of roasted pinon nuts.
Then, hitting a slope, it continued to roll, or rather to lope toward the river, and the fireball struck sandy earth a few yards south of the largest hot spring, where, overturning five or six times, it then leaped ten feet over Snuffy Ledoux, who was still lounging hi the bathtub-sized hot spring putting the finishing touches on his last tallboy, and with a stupendous sizzle splashed into the Rio Grande, sulking instantly, leaving a fat greasy smoke ball hovering like a concerned mother over the bubbling spot where it had disappeared.
It contained a desk of white maple with gilded drawer handles, two small arm chairs covered in floral cotton, a miniature pinewood dresser, a tallboy that could have been (and was) a filing cabinet, a sofa and, whimsically rather than seriously designed as a Victorian work basket, a safe.