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  • 31palmer — palmer1 /pah meuhr, pahl /, n. 1. a pilgrim, esp. of the Middle Ages, who had returned from the Holy Land bearing a palm branch as a token. 2. any religious pilgrim. 3. palmerworm. v.i. 4. Scot. and North Eng. to wander; go idly from place to… …

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  • 32Palmer — /pah meuhr/ or, for 5, /pahl /, n. 1. Alice Elvira, 1855 1902, U.S. educator. 2. Arnold, born 1929, U.S. golfer. 3. Daniel David, 1845 1913, Canadian originator of chiropractic medicine. 4. George Herbert, 1842 1933, U.S. educator, philosopher,… …

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  • 33palmer — ► sustantivo masculino TECNOLOGÍA Instrumento de precisión para medir diámetros o espesores pequeños. TAMBIÉN pálmer SINÓNIMO calibrador * * * palmer o pálmer (de «Jean Louis Palmer», su inventor) m. Instrumento para medir diámetros o espesores… …

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  • 34pálmer — ► sustantivo masculino TECNOLOGÍA Instrumento de precisión para medir diámetros o espesores pequeños. TAMBIÉN pálmer SINÓNIMO calibrador * * * palmer o pálmer (de «Jean Louis Palmer», su inventor) m. Instrumento para medir diámetros o espesores… …

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  • 35Palmer, A. M. — (1838 1905)    Connecticut born Albert Marshman Palmer studied law at New York University, but chose to pursue political opportunity through a friendship with New York s Internal Revenue collector Sheridan Shook, who ultimately made Palmer… …

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  • 36Palmer — This ancient Anglo French surname recorded in the spellings of Palmer, Palmar, Parmer, Paumier, and the dialectals Pymar, Pymer, and Pimer, is a medieval descriptive nickname. It is one of the sizeable group of early European surnames that were… …

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  • 37palmer — 1pàl·mer s.m.inv. TS sport → tubolare {{line}} {{/line}} DATA: 1918. ETIMO: da Palmer, nome del fabbricante di pneumatici J. Palmer. 2pal·mer s.m.inv. ES fr. {{wmetafile0}} TS tecn. apparecchio per misurare il diametro o lo spessore di piastre,… …

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  • 38Palmer — 1 Original name in latin Palmer Name in other language State code PR Continent/City America/Puerto Rico longitude 18.37051 latitude 65.77405 altitude 19 Population 1205 Date 2007 02 16 2 Original name in latin Palmer Name in other language State… …

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  • 39Palmer — I. /ˈpamə/ (say pahmuh) noun 1. Clive Frederick, born 1954, Australian mineral industrialist and politician; in 2013 formed the Palmer United Party in 2013 and was elected to the House of Representatives. 2. Geoffrey Winston Russell, born 1942,… …

  • 40Palmer, E H — ▪ British linguist born Aug. 7, 1840, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng. died Aug. 11, 1882, Wādī Sidr, Egypt       English Orientalist, distinguished as a linguist and as a traveler, among whose many translations is a version of the Qurʾān the… …

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