(n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Compared with stealers, aggressive children tended to be younger and more immature males, and to come from stressed families with a history of mental illness.
(2) The settling for the sentences was one that an American producer would have built for a film about a British trial: a courtroom built in the days when sheep stealers were hanged outside, 200 years ago.
(3) "Most people my age either know nothing about her, or only know she was a milk stealer and won the Falklands war, but still don't have any opinion.
(4) It is also true that the speech wasn't designed to be a scene-stealer.
(5) Kids will enjoy Oregon Zoo and Children’s Museum, but the scene-stealers are the Japanese Garden and the International Rose Test Garden.
(6) Photograph: Misha Janette Harcoza serves up fashion quirks with an eclectic selection of accessories like necklaces made from melted rubber balls and bonsai trees fashioned into watches, but the show-stealer is the interior – featuring a floor-to-ceiling bouncy-ball dispenser, a ceramic purple poodle guarding the stairs, and carpet patterned like Lego blocks.
(7) So long, ladies!” declares the scheming man-stealer Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) in one of the film’s many venomous put-downs.
(8) In his latest blog post, Sanad reiterated his refusal to engage with the military's legal "theatrics", saying: "I don't beg for my freedom from a group of killers and homeland-stealers."
(9) David Cameron’s early social-justice, hoodie-hugging , greenest-ever, socially liberal scene-stealers clung to him, even as he led the country into a dark tunnel of extreme austerity.
(10) 3.08am BST Tigers 0 - Red Sox 1, bottom of the 5th No momentum here, Avila throws out Jacoby, one of the most efficient base stealers in the league, trying to get to second.
(11) Despite coming from a long line of pillaging sheep stealers, I've never actually nicked something from a supermarket self-service checkout.
Thief
Definition:
(n.) One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
(n.) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a gripping read from the opening, with the Ku Klux Klan menacing his pregnant mother, through to the troubled last months of his life: we follow Malcolm Little, common thief, on his journey to Malcolm X , inspirational leader.
(2) 8.41am BST Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) Masipa says leaking of documents is disservice to justice, and that person who does it, is a thief.
(3) The popularity of criminal memoirs in the 1990s brought new opportunities and Reynolds wrote The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.
(4) The following messages are elaborated: osteoporosis is a silent thief; backache during the menopause is not always osteoporosis; detection of the patient at risk for osteoporotic fractures is possible; primary osteoarthrosis protects against osteoporosis; bone densitometry has given osteoporosis a scientific cachet; bones are not stones, effective prevention and treatment are possible, there are alternatives to calcium and hormone replacement therapies.
(5) A suspected jewel thief was killed and another seriously injured during a police chase after an attempted ram raid at one of the London branches of the jewellers Tiffany and Co yesterday.
(6) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
(7) In my part of the world, we have a saying that the man who carries a pot of palm oil from the ceiling is not the only thief.
(8) Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House intelligence committee, suggested Greenwald was a “thief” after he worked with news organizations who paid for stories based on the documents.
(9) Gina Rinehart's son, John Hancock, called his youngest sister "an oxygen thief", a Sydney court heard during the latest battle over control of the family's multibillion-dollar trust.
(10) The criminals For many years after the second world war, George “Taters” Chatham was Britain’s busiest jewel thief.
(11) Procrastination is the thief of time.” Last week, the chancellor echoed the exact same sentiments – “the sooner you start the smoother the ride” – as he announced a raft of Whitehall spending cuts as a down payment on the £25bn he’s planning to spend over the next three years.
(12) Ibori, a petty thief who rose to be one of Nigeria’s richest men, received a 13-year jail sentence in London in 2012 after admitting fraud of nearly £50m.
(13) Holder was fatally shot in the city’s East Harlem neighborhood while pursuing a bicycle thief.
(14) Another, Julie Behar, wrote that Madoff deserved a "sentence befitting a thief and murderer" while a Connecticut doctor said the entire retirement plan of his practice had been wiped out, leaving 140 employees with nothing.
(15) A few synaptic contacts between two adjacent chief cells are seen, and so are direct contacts between thief cells and preganglionic efferent nerve fibers terminating on ganglion cells.
(16) Incidentally, these sad long-term cases will do more than twice the maximum any court can sentence a thief to on Community Payback.
(17) You can wait until a cop gets here,” Bike Batman said he told the thief.
(18) The thief left the building unnoticed, then returned the artwork the next day by throwing it over the wall of the sculpture garden.
(19) But presumably the Sun also believes that you shouldn’t point out there’s a fire down the road if your own house isn’t burning down, and you should never chase after a thief who robbed the woman next to you if your own wallet is still safely secured in your pocket.
(20) He also called the incumbent president a “genocidaire”, a thief and a pyromaniac in a Facebook post that led to Bongo opening proceedings against him.