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lune
1[ loon ]
noun
- anything shaped like a crescent or a half moon.
- a crescent-shaped figure bounded by two arcs of circles, either on a plane or a spherical surface.
lune
2[ loon ]
noun
- a line for securing a hawk.
lune
1/ luːn /
noun
- falconry a leash for hawks or falcons
lune
2/ luːn /
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Example Sentences
Very little of that unctuous spasmodic shouting, which used to characterise Wesleyanism, is heard in Lune-street Chapel.
A great work in the business of spreading Wesleyan Methodism has been done by the people and parsons of Lune-street chapel.
About a mile below Middleton the river Lune ripples sunnily down into the Tees.
The word Lune was anciently written Lone, and the hundred is still named Lonsdale.
Apud quosdam debet omni die Lune per anni spatium operari domino suo, et tribus diebus unaquaque septimana in Augusto.
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