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little end

noun

  1. Also called (in vertical engines)top end the smaller end of a connecting rod in an internal-combustion engine or reciprocating pump Compare big end
  2. the bearing surface between the smaller end of a connecting rod and the gudgeon pin


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But here he's lived on the little end of this country now going on ten years, and what have you done?

In the fall the battles of the spring are fought over again, beginning at the other or little end of the series.

Well tack a little end of the wood to the bottom of the leg, called Joan, excitedly.

It seems as if thee always carried a horn about with thee so that thee might creep out of the little end of it.

He knew the axe that he used the night before on the little end of bacon was lying, pressed into the snow, under one runner.

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