Pulaski

1
[ puh-las-kee ]

noun
  1. Count Cas·i·mir [kaz-uh-meer], /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/, 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.

  2. a town in SW Virginia.

  1. Fort. Fort Pulaski.

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Other definitions for Pulaski (2 of 2)

Pulaski2
[ puh-las-kee ]

noun
  1. a double-edged hand tool having an ax blade on one side and a pickax or wide chisel on the opposite side, used especially in clearing land and removing tree stumps.

Origin of Pulaski

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1920–25, Americanism; after Edward C. Pulaski (1866–1931), U.S. forest ranger, its inventor

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How to use Pulaski in a sentence

  • The incoming Constitutionalist president is General George Pulaski.

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  • The group formed in Pulaski, Tenn., became the most well-known: the Ku Klux Klan.

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  • The gentleman from Pulaski calmly waited for a completer silence than the day had known.

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  • Yet all other human beings save the gentleman from Pulaski were as nothing, it seemed, to the chairman.

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  • The delegate from Marion, like the mysterious person from Pulaski, was a stranger to state conventions.

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  • While the French were bombarding that city from their ships, the Americans, led by Pulaski, tried to storm it .

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  • As they passed old Fort Pulaski, Ralph ventured to question the pilot on the roof.

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