sling psychrometer

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noun

a psychrometer so designed that the wet-bulb thermometer can be ventilated, to expedite evaporation, by whirling in the air.

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Its award-winning Sling technology allows consumers to take their live and recorded TV with them wherever they want.
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My fantasy unravels when she opens the robe, revealing a sling around her broken arm.
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The rifle was found nearby, one end of the sling having become detached from the butt.
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As Whittaker Chambers remarked in Witness: [W]hen I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else.
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In Sling Blade, Billy Bob Thornton's character fixes lawnmowers but he sounds as if he swallowed one.
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At the lesson following he accordingly presented himself with his arm in a sling.
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The hurt to her foot was a small matter; but the doctor said she would have to wear her arm in a sling for a time.
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He was close to the chateau now, and she noticed that his right arm was bandaged and hanging in a sling.
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"Well, I for one don't like her a bit," declared Tilly, perking up the bow ends of the black sling that hung about her neck.
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God sends us at this crisis the shepherd David and his sling to do battle with Goliath of Guise.
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