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  • silver-top braid
    <Andros, Exuma>; silver-top plait <Crooked> [cf. DAE silver-top palm, whose fronds are used] n. a style of weaving narrow strips
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  • silver thatch
    [see quote and THATCH palm frond] n. a palm tree, Coccothrinax argentea: 1788 Among the indigenous palms [is] "Silver Thatch"
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  • silver-leaf palmetto
     [see quot.] n. a palm tree (Coccothrinax argentea?): 1731 Silver Leaf Palmetto . . . leaves of a shining silver
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  • silky shark
    n. a shark, Carcharhinus falsiformis: 1968 (Böhlke 14).
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  • silk manella
    [cf. W Car, silk grass and MANELLA, both Agave sp.; from silky fibres] n. a plant, Sanseviera trifasciata, producing fibres
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  • silker
    [cf. Brit. dial. North seki second (in counting marbles) (Harder 1955:29); perhaps influenced by silver or silk] intj. in playing
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  • silent
     [Gul. idem (Parsons 1923:177); from silence, construed as ending in the plural -s] n. silence: They must break their silent
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  • sight glasses
    [as opposed to drinking glasses, etc.] n. eyeglasses; spectacles. <Black>
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  • sight
     [cf. Jam. Rasta talk idem (Pollard 1980:20)] intj. (Do you) understand? (I) understand. (youth slang): You could say "sight" but
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  • sifter face
    [cf. sifter sieve + FACE mask] n. a mask worn at JUNKANOO: 1978 "Sifter faces".. were "storebought", meaning factory manufactured,
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