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  • three-stones
    [cf. Krio tri-jayaston 'three fire stone' fireplace, cooking place, eps. of a humble person. Traditionally, in cooking, chunks of wood
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  • truns and truns
    [from colloq. tons and tons idem] n. phr. a great many: Truns and truns of 'em went (Long). <Black>
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  • turn-head
    [a calque?] n. (of women) turning the head and upper body away from a person, either abruptly to indicate disgust
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  • three-quarter pitch trousers
    [from their covering three-quarters of the leg] n. trousers with cuffs falling between the ankles and the knees: 1936 (Dupuch
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  • threepence lizard
    /trópans lízard/ [from the folk belief that it has a 3 d. coin in its head; cf. Prov. peni lizaad
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  • three-leaf
    [from its leaflet; OED different sp.] n. a tree: 1977 Allophyllus cobbe or Picodendron bacatum (Patterson 99). cf. BITTERWOOD 2. <Gen.> 
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  • three-finger
    [from its leaflets; cf. DJE five-finger the climbing vine Syngonium auritum, so called because the leaves develop 3, 5, or
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  • three days
    [from the arrangement by which slaves worked three days a week for their masters then three days a week for
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  • threaden
    /trédan/ [OED, made of thread arch, or dial.] v. to thread: 1977 She...look for some place to t'readen der t'ing
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  • thrasher
    /trásha/ <Black>; thrusher /thrósha/ <White> [cf. OED thrasher perh, a survival of thrusher, thresher an English dialect name of the
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