dead point
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dead point
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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At the engine's "dead point," Lincoln said, even a single turn is "extremely difficult."
From Time Magazine Archive
At the engine's "dead point," Lincoln said, even a single turn is "extremely difficult."
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the time necessary to travel over the distance between the dead point and the south pole would be equal to the distance separating the north pole from the dead point.
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules
In a few minutes more there was a dead point at the hedge-row.
From Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Herbert, Henry William
They had then waylaid the present detachment, and were actually housed in perfect silence within their fort, when the mule of the trapper made such a dead point.
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de
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