Crossword clues for dollies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dolly \Dol"ly\, n.; pl. Dollies.
(Mining) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
(Mach.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
--Knight.In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
Wiktionary
n. (dolly English)
Usage examples of "dollies".
SSR was keeping a low profile We joined the conga line of men pushing empty dollies back into the big cool space of the warehouse.
Looking about her, she could tell that some of these dollies came from families much better off than hers.
We came to a warehouse where a lot of men were rushing around, carrying clipboards, pushing dollies, all busy and intent on their business.
Many were of impossibly glamorous dollies with preposterously inflated bosoms and very big hair.
Various dubious-looking types, a rusty clockwork fireman, a manky straw dog and some barely dressed dollies were hustled into the spotlight to tell their tales of drunkenness and debauchery, point accusing fingers and paws.
He waded straight in, laying about him, smashing anything near him, a lamp, some corn dollies, a vase, a picture.
Even six corn dollies hung again in their mobile group, dollies freshly and intricately woven from the shiny stalks of the new harvest by an elderly ethnic-smock lady who said you had to cut the corn for them specially nowadays by hand, because combine harvesters chopped the straw too short.
Bananas thought that replacing the corn dollies might be going too far, but Cassie said darkly that they represented pagan gods who should be placated - and deep in the countryside you never knew.
I gave one final glance round the pretty sitting-room, seeing the red check frills on the curtains and the corn dollies moving gently in the breeze through the door.
There were too many giddy dollies in this city to think about just one of them, no matter how dearly he loved her,- no matter how much it hurt to leave her to whatever fate she faced.
The dollies for the shells lay on their rails, and the torpedo racks, five hundred of them, stood padded with felt.
But the crates were cracked open, the dollies burdenless, the torpedo racks bare.