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n. 1 A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. 2 (context nautical English) (alternative form of ropeband English)
Usage examples of "robbin".
As soon as Tien had bolted up the ladder Morris had sent Bony Robbins aft to see to the security of the upper level.
The entire team, except for Robbins, Pasaretti, Vespasio, and Huerta, had rendezvoused at the airstrip.
Shelby County Taxing District was seriously impaired, for the time being, while a second holding the same year seemed to reduce the significance of the Robbins case itself to that of a reassertion of the elementary rule against discrimination.
Genesis, the angels indeed consorted with the daughters of men, the devils also, add the uncanonical Robbins, indulged in mundane amours.
Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton and was set in another dystopian near-future where everyone needed permission to travel.
Robbins had been trying to teach him after he sold Moses to Henry that every man felt he had been snookered after buying or selling a slave.
Once Moses was in the hole, William Robbins came out of the house followed by Dora, his daughter.
And there was Mel Sager, full-blooded Mesquakie, a guitar player who has appeared with Western stars like Marty Robbins and Webb Pierce and Jim Reeves, who comes back to see his mom and his sister three-four times a year.
Lieutenant Robbins and I have worked out a plan whereby we can salvage seven of our most severely damaged Speeds by cannibalizing four that were too damaged to repair, leaving us with a total of twenty-six more or less operable, although our supply of spares is dangerously low.
Subsequent to ignition and in defiance of her stubborn sophistication, Maggie Robbins had uttered a gasp of astonishment.
Throughout the entire suiting-up procedure Robbins had hovered nearby, out of the way but within viewing range, her recorder humming relentlessly.
Maggie Robbins proved herself an asset to the flight instead of simply another piece of cargo.
While the others strove not to speculate on whether or not the mission had been a success or failure, and largely failed, Robbins was everywhere: shooting video, asking questions, experimenting with her weightless condition, and generally doing her utmost to keep her companions occupied.
They would make one drop, do some basic surveying, take some surface samples, let Robbins gush breathlessly for the benefit of watching millions, and return to the shuttle.
Ever the journalist, Robbins had aimed her arm-mounted camera downward.