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Small dresser
Answer for the clue "Small dresser ", 6 letters:
lowboy
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Word definitions for lowboy in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"chest of drawers on short legs," 1891, a hybrid from low (adj.) + French bois "wood" (see bush ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A low chest of drawers. 2 A type of semi-trailer with two drops in deck height: one right after the gooseneck and one right before the wheels.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A lowboy ( low loader in British English , low-bed in western Canada and South Africa or float in Australia ) is a semi-trailer with two drops in deck height: one right after the gooseneck and one right before the wheels. This allows the deck to be extremely ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lowboy \Low"boy`\, n. A chest of drawers not more than four feet high; -- applied commonly to the lower half of a tallboy from which the upper half has been removed. [U. S.]
Usage examples of lowboy.
He said he was looking for an eighteenth-century lowboy and one or two Louis XVI pieces, a secreta ire in particular, and a Louis XV commode.
Brantling slowly let out slack while the Heldensburg operator reeled the load toward the lowboy at the same rate.
If he turned out to be a spy for a competitor or working for the Confederation, Lowboy would take care of him.
Even Lowboy had been impressed, although the new man had demonstrated some reluctance when ordered to kill the survivors.
They were so close to dying that a reasonable person would have asked what difference any of it made, but Lowboy was unreasonably ambitious.
The way he said it outraged Lowboy because it proved Cameron really was a tough sonofabitch, and now he had second thoughts about going up against the man.
Labaya stared sullenly at the ground, as if he did not like what Lowboy was saying.
And he did not like it at all, the way that man, Lowboy, leered at him.
The remains of Rhys Apbac, Labaya, Callendar, Sharpedge, and Lowboy were consigned to the morgue for burial in space, following the usual ritual aboard naval vessels.
He was studying a faded black-and-white print of Jetboy shaking hands with a wizened little man who looked like an anemic gnome when Lowboy finally made his entrance.
Digger said it would have won a Pulitzer, but Lowboy spiked it and it never ran.
You should have heard them gripe when Lowboy sent him on that tour around the world.
And at the other end of the bridge, coming toward them, was the great hulking mass of a lowboy trailer carrying a fifty-ton power shovel.
Guinn saw the lowboy tractor lumbering as far over to his side of the bridge as it could, and the trailer reluctantly following.
It must have nipped the back corner of the lowboy the lightest of touches, and it was all but scraping the guard rail on the right.