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Definition of Chokers
1. choker [n] - See also: choker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chokers
Literary usage of Chokers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"Modes of addressing persons of various rank*.' The Clergy as a body, you will
speak of as the WHITE-chokers, The lay aristocracy are simply styled The Nobs. ..."
2. I. C. S. Reference Library: A Series of Textbooks Prepared for the Students by International Correspondence Schools (1905)
"The capacity of chokers at pressure differences other than 5 pounds may be ...
TABLE VII DIRECT RADIATION SUPPLIED THROUGH chokers TABLE VIII FACTORS FOR ..."
3. Electrical Engineering in Theory and Practice by George Dudley Aspinall Parr (1906)
"Nearly all chokers have therefore either an adjustable core or coil wound in ...
232, where G1C.2 are two chokers, and when used in this way they are called ..."
4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"... and there's Mr. Brown, who oils his hair, and wears rings, and white chokers—my
eyes ! such white chokers !—and yet we call him the handsome snob ! ..."
5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... and there's Mr. Brown, who oils his hair, ami wears rings, and white chokers—my
eyes ! such white chokers ! —and yet we call him the handsome snob! ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843)
"Oxford men, we have observed, tie chokers better than any others ; but we do ...
At Cambridge (except Trinity) there is a laxity in chokers, for which it is ..."
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