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sambur and is
The name is also spelled sambur, or sambhur.

buck and stag
An earlier form of spelling is Buke-Lawes, i. e. buck or stag and low ground.
A stag and doe party, also called a " Jack and Jill ", " buck and doe " or " hag " ( hen + stag ) party, is a similar party that includes men and women.
A stag and doe party, stag and drag party, hen and stag party, buck and doe party, or a jack and jill party is a party and fundraiser for an engaged couple.
In Canada, a stag and doe, or buck and doe, is a wedding tradition popular in Southern Ontario.

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For real-time, it is appropriate to simplify one or more common approximations, and tune to the exact parameters of the scenery in question, which is also tuned to the agreed parameters to get the most ' bang for the buck '.
The word fart in Middle English occurs in " Sumer Is Icumen In ", where one sign of summer is " bucke uerteþ " ( the buck farts ).
In casual play, the right to deal a hand typically rotates among the players and is marked by a token called a dealer button ( or buck ).
Most commonly used is a dealer button with either the word " DEALER " or a " D " written on it ; this item ( also known as the buck ) indicates who shall deal next.
The male is called a buck and the female is a doe ; a young rabbit is a kitten or kit.
A doe is ready to breed at about 6 months of age, and a buck at about 7 months.
They can get around Sextus ' problem of the criterion because there is no infinite regress or circle of reasoning, because the buck stops with ( see also idiom ) the principles of common sense.
For most types of deer in modern English usage, the male is called a " buck " and the female is termed a " doe ", but the terms vary with dialect, and especially according to the size of the species.
To gain the buck / boost feature, all that is required is two separate switches so that the AC input can be connected to one of the two primary taps, while the load is connected to the other, thus using the main transformer's primary windings as an autotransformer.
The Full Monty ( 1997 ) is a story of British ex-steel workers who form a Chippendales-style dance revue and decide to strip naked to make an extra buck.
Plug is a lankish, gangling character in The Bash Street Kids, whose trademark is his horrifying face, which consists of a large overbite, two buck teeth and wide nose.
The Triglav area is the setting of an old Slovene folktale concerning a hunter seeking a treasure guarded by an enchanted chamois buck named Zlatorog ( Goldhorn, after its golden horns ).
Mancelona is probably best known for its annual buck pole, a deer hunting contest that has drawn hunters from across the State.
Kenneth Arthur Dodd OBE ( born 8 November 1927 ) is a British comedian and singer-songwriter, famous for his frizzy hair or " fluff dom " and buck teeth or " denchers ", his favourite cleaner, the feather duster ( or " tickling stick ") and his greeting of " How tickled I am!
An easy way to visually tell them apart is that Chip has a small black nose ( it looks a bit like a chocolate " Chip " as a way to help people remember who is who ) and two centered protruding teeth, whereas Dale has a big red nose and his two prominent buck teeth exposed.
The mill is now in the care of English Heritage The buck was rebuilt with new larger windows to admit more light.

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Dreschel's appearance was reportedly repellent, as one female Auschwitz prisoner recounted: " camp leader Dreschel was there, her buck teeth sticking out, even when her mouth is closed.
Cholly was a Chinese stereotype with huge buck teeth and comically fractured English pronunciation, a fact that makes these cartoons even more politically incorrect than the theatrical ones from the 1950s.
A high-quality buck can produce high-quality offspring even when mated with an average doe.
Tauron is also established as a troublesome colony ; even under the new unified federal government, Tauron remained strong enough to frequently buck the government's larger authority.
Folding lock-blade knives and " Buck Knife " thereby became strongly linked in the public mind, and the Buck design was much imitated, so that a buck knife, has come to mean any folding lock-blade design, even while Buck Knife is yet a trademark and not limited to folding lock-blades.
Traditional orthodontics focuses largely on retractive ( pulling teeth back in the face ) mechanics and assumes that upper teeth often protrude in the face ( buck teeth ) even when studies have been published in the refereed literature that true protrusion of upper teeth is relatively rare4.
He also did whatever he could to make a quick buck or rating point, regardless of legal, moral, or ethical issues, even going so low as to schedule a field trip to the " Acme Stewardess Academy " during a " Nudeness Week " in the strip.
With each successive album, Simenon moved to buck the accepted dance music trend by incorporating ever greater amounts of live instrumentation into his sound: Unknown Territory would set raw rock guitars against its breakbeats ; whilst Clear would strike out even further, blending reggae and dub into the mix courtesy of various instrumentalists from the On-U Soundsystem / Tackhead collective.

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" However we can sometimes get more happiness bang for our buck by spending it in prosocial ways.
A compartment is usually some kind of landscape ( in the case of Scottish chiefs it is generally a " mount vert "-grassy mount covered with the clan's flower ) or seascape, and these can be quite elaborate, particularly in more recent Canadian grants, such as the compartment of the University of Northern British Columbia, in which the female kermodei bear and woodland caribou buck stand on a forest, mountain peaks and ears of wheat, all rising out of the conventionalised heraldic representation of water, which is itself charged with an orca as designed by Ron Sebastian.
The suggestion was no more Law's than it was any of the other dozens of conservatives who had suggested this to Balfour, and his comment was simply an attempt to " pass the buck " and avoid the anger of Austen Chamberlain, who was furious that such an announcement had been made without consulting him or the party.
Does may mate with more than one buck and go back into estrus within a month if they do not settle.
There was quite a clash between the two, as Esposito's freewheeling lifestyle ( represented by his casual dress on the job, the desire to make quick buck, and three ex-wives ) put him in contrast with Corassa, the older, more conservative family man with a heightened sense of professionalism.
This first design featured Woody with red " vest feathers " ( instead of white ), buck teeth in some shots, thick ringed legs, two green tail feathers and a big chin which made him look more like a pelican than a woodpecker.
One window ( shown at left ) depicts the obverse of the coat of arms of Vermont, which is a more painterly armorial representation of the Great Seal of Vermont ( reserved solely for embossing documents ), the arms are topped by the head of a buck white-tailed deer and circled by branches of Eastern White Pine ( Pinus strobus ).
In general, the NAV will stay close to $ 1, but is expected to fluctuate above and below, and will break the buck more often.
Though they're apparently talented when it comes to coding and creating video games ( proven in a strip where it's mentioned that their games usually get good reviews ), they spend more time creating ripoffs of established franchises or other schemes to make a quick buck.

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Rather than pay full price, his father would “ wait until the sixth or seventh inning, because then you could give the guy outside a buck or two and you could go out there and watch Ted play .”
At ranges of 200 yards ( 180 m ) and under, the buck and ball from the smoothbore musket, while less accurate than the rifled musket, actually produces a greater number of hits due to the greater number of projectiles ; 37 of 50 Minie balls, vs. 18 of 50 balls and 31 of 150 buckshot, for a total of 49 hits in 50 shots.
Smaller bore musketoons matched the caliber of the muskets in service, and were generally used the same way, with single musket ball or a buck and ball load, while large bore musketoons were loaded with multiple buckshot or pistol balls ( generally smaller in diameter than musket balls ) and used as shotguns.

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