choker-setter

[ choh-ker-set-er ]

/ ˈtʃoʊ kərˌsɛt ər /

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noun

(in logging) a worker whose job is to fasten a choker to logs.

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Partly because Ben was as naturally and effortlessly impeccable as Astaire or Cary Grant, or any other mythic style-setter.
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Of a necklace Rihanna was wearing, Rivers joked she had asked Rihanna how she felt about the choker.
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The last to take the runway was a shimmering gold, high-low gown with two elbow length cuffs, a thick choker, and heeled mules.
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They sported fashionable helmets and choker-style ribbed neckbands, like something Nefertiti would have worn.
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Plus, she has a matching glove-choker, and actual coordinating leather gloves.
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So Regis Brugiere stole Jim, the black-and-white setter, and concealed him well.
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Thus was the way of justice fulfilled in the case of Regis Brugiere and the setter-dog Jim.
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Pull out choker to closed position and start engine in usual manner.
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Like a setter in the make of him, but no setter that ever I saw could match him for size or looks.
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Upon reaching a gate that opened into his meadow, he looked about and whistled for the dog, but the setter was gone.
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