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w. & f.

American  

abbreviation

  1. (in shipping) water and feed.


Example Sentences

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Another W.F.P.-backed incumbent facing a primary challenge is Assemblyman Joseph R. Lentol, 77, who has represented a section of northern Brooklyn that includes Greenpoint and Williamsburg since 1973.

From New York Times

The Welcome Center includes a gift shop, free travel brochures and the W. F. Wellman Exhibit Hall that has been exhibiting a colorful display of antique and classic cars.

From Washington Times

There are earlier commercial recordings of “Lonesome Valley,” and a transcription of a song called “The Lonesome Valley,” with different lyrics, appears in W. F. Allen, C. P. Ware, and L. M. Garrison’s “Slave Songs of the United States,” from 1867—as with many traditional songs, “Lonesome Valley” was likely composed by hundreds of people over just as many years—but Carter was credited on the Victor release as the song’s author.

From The New Yorker

W. F. Strong, a professor of communication at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville and a 30-year resident of the area, called drug money the WD-40 of the Valley.

From New York Times

Bottke, W. F. & Andrews-Hanna, J. C. A post-accretionary lull in large impacts on early Mars.

From Nature