Crossword clues for blucher
The Collaborative International Dictionary
blucher \blu"cher\, bluchers \blu"chers\(bl[=u]"k[~e]r), n.
A kind of half boot, or high shoe, with laces over the
tongue; -- named from the Prussian general Bl["u]cher.
--Thackeray.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach. 2 A sturdy laced leather half-boot.
WordNet
n. a high shoe with laces over the tongue [syn: bluchers]
Wikipedia
Blücher may refer to:
- Blücher (surname)
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian General
Ships named Blücher (after Gebhard von Blücher) include:
- SMS Blücher (1877), a training corvette of the Imperial German navy
- Blücher (steamship), a 1901 steamship of the Hamburg America Line
- SMS Blücher, an armoured cruiser of World War I
- German cruiser Blücher, a heavy cruiser of World War II, sunk in the Oslofjord
Other things named Blücher include
- Derby shoe, called a blucher in American English, whose laces tie over the tongue on two flaps
- Blucher shoe, a shoe with open lacing, similar to the derby, but with vamp in one piece.
- Blücher Order, an East German decoration named after Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
- Blücher (locomotive), an early railway locomotive built by George Stephenson
- Blücher is the name of a song by power metal band Kamelot from their 2007 album Ghost Opera.
- Wolf pack Blücher, a German wolf pack of World War II
- Frau Blücher, a character in the 1974 film Young Frankenstein
- Blücher, a hand in the British card game Napoleon
- Blucher, Newcastle, a small district of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
- Blücher (film), a 1988 Norwegian film
- Blücher, a boarding house at Wellington College, Berkshire, England
Blücher is a 1988 Norwegian drama film directed by Oddvar Bull Tuhus, starring Helge Jordal, Frank Krog and Hege Schøyen. Two North Sea divers who have recently been fired plan to vindicate themselves by a pioneer expedition to the wreckage of the German cruiser Blücher, at the bottom of the Oslofjord. The expedition soon becomes entangled in political intrigues.
Blucher (foaled 1811, died 1841) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire named after the Prussian General Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, one of the most successful commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, but his name was invariably spelt without the umlaut.
Bred by Lord Stawell, and one of the many notable offspring of the great Waxy (1790–1818), Blucher's first year of racing was triumphant. Between July 1813 and June 1814 he ran five times and was unbeaten, his wins climaxing with the Epsom Derby of 1814. After that he had only one further race, at the beginning of the 1815 flat season, in which he placed second. He was then retired to stud at Marclaud's near Farnham.
Blucher had little success as a sire but was an ancestor in the dam's line of the double classic winner Pretender (1866).
Blücher or Bluecher is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), a Napoleonic era Prussian general
- Gebhard von Blücher (1865–1931), husband of Evelyn, Princess Blücher
- Franz Blücher (1896–1959), German politician
- Heinrich Blücher (1899–1970), German philosopher
- Vasily Blücher (1899–1938), Marshal of the Soviet Union (named after the Prussian general)
- Wolfgang Graf von Blücher (1917–1941), German World War II paratrooper
- Erik Blücher (born 1953), expatriate Norwegian far-right activist
Category:Occupational surnames
Usage examples of "blucher".
In such sad sort retreat was hurried on, Erfurt was gained with Blucher hot at heel.
Just then--- NAPOLEON My charge was this: Make it impossible at any cost That Wellington and Blucher should unite.
GENTLEMAN OPPOSITE He is the Prussian officer attached to our headquarters, through whom Wellington communicates with Blucher, who, they say, is threatened by the French at Ligny at this moment.
Wellington, and the bluff old Prussian, Blucher, met him at Waterloo, defeated his armies and drove him from the field.
This diamond snuff-box was presented to me by the stout old Blucher himself, in remembrance of service I was able to perform at Waterloo.
A quarter of a mile away, the Blucher was circling slowly, long and menacing and shark-like, and he stared at it in hatred and in fear.
With a dozen strokes of the knife, a Blucher would free a large hunk of flesh and throw it down to one of the women.
A burst of dazzling sunshine struck the bridge so fiercely that Kyller lifted his hand to shield his eyes, but it was gone instantly as the Blucher dashed into another clammy cold bank of fog.
The forty-foot barrels of the nine-inch guns moved restlessly, seeming to sniff for their prey, and the Blucher raced on, lifting a hissing white wave at her bows, vibrating and shuddering to the thrust of her engines as they built up to full speed.
Below there was a reserve of speed that would allow her to close with Blucher in fifty minutes of steaming always -A provided she was not smashed into a fiery shambles long before.
Charles turned quickly to see shell-fire burst on Blucher, and his wide grin split his face.
Immediately after the sinking of Orion, the Blucher had reduced speed sharply and turned due south.
The tubes looked like a rack of fat cigars, and with weary jubilation Charles saw that there were men still tending them, crouching behind the sheet of armour plate, waiting for Bloodhound to turn and bring Blucher on to her starboard Irish beam.
Still holding his eyes, he opened his mouth to give the order that would send Blucher once more thrashing southward, but before the words reached his lips, a wild shout from the look-out interrupted him.
The torpedo struck Blucher five feet below the surface, on the very tip of her curved keel.