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One in mid-thrust
Answer for the clue "One in mid-thrust ", 6 letters:
lunger
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Wikipedia
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Lunger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arnold Lunger (20th century), Italian luger Brett Lunger (born 1945), American racecar driver Hansjörg Lunger (born 1964), Italian ski mountaineer Jane du Pont Lunger (1914–2001), American heiress ...
Wiktionary
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Etymology 1 n. A person who lunges. Etymology 2 n. (context slang English) A person afflicted with a disease of the lungs, especially one suffering from tuberculosis.
WordNet
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n. someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: consumptive ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
lunger \lunger\ (l[u^]ng"[~e]r), n. a person with pulmonary tuberculosis. [informal] Syn: consumptive.
Usage examples of lunger.
After some very interesting exchanges of reminiscences about incurable millers, roarers, lungers, half-bred blood-cattle, gingers, and slugs, which led inevitably to still more interesting stories of the chase, during the course of which both gentlemen found themselves perfectly in accord in their contempt of such ignoble persons as roadsters and skirters, and their conviction that the soundest of all maxims was, Get over the ground if it breaks your neck, formality was at an end between them, and his lordship was not only begging Bertram to call him Chuffy, as everyone else did, but promising to show him some of the rarer sights in town.
Any dog dreadful enough to have outdone his fellow couch destroyers, ankle nippers, rug soilers, lawn excavators, garbage stealers, and leash lungers to the extent of requiring three local consultations and the Monks of New Skete?
He hath an army of women, smiters with swords and lungers with lances, five and twenty thousand in number, each of whom, whenas she mounteth steed and donneth battle-gear, eveneth a thousand knights of the bravest.