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  • blanket field
    [etym?] n., Obs. a cotton field: 1832 People weeding in the Cotton field, or what the Negroes call the Blanket
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  • blading off
    [from the cutting blade] phr. smoothing down limestone to make a road: 1976 Thousands of miles of roads have been
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  • bladder
    [Belize idem (Dayley 1979); cf. Haitian blad idem TDKF; OED, anything inflated and hollow] n. a balloon: They were selling
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  • blackwood
    [US different sp. W3; from the color of its leaves rather than wood] n. 1. a tree, Avicennia germinans: 1869
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  • black wasp
    /blak was/ [W Car.] n. a black stinging insect (sp?): Black wasp, that's a big wasp have black wings—we's call
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  • Blackus
    /blákas/ [referring to skin color] n. an insulting name (youth slang). (Nassau)
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  • black up
    v. phr. [Car.; DJE from "black (or block, which is also /blak/ in the dial.)" of Jam. but in Bah.
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  • black up
    adj. bruised (of an eye): Her eye look all black up (Nassau). (Black)
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  • black torch(wood)
     n. a tree, Erithalis fruticosa: 1905 (Shattuck 237). = BLACK STICK 2 (Gen.)
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  • black torch berry
    n. a plant, Tetrazygia cleagnoides: 1889 (Gardner 380). (Exuma, White)
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