Dingleberry vs Helm - What's the difference?
dingleberry | helm |
Vaccinium erythrocarpum'', the Southern mountain cranberry.“dingleberry?n” listed
* 1937 , US Government Printing Office, Range Plant Handbook :
* 1959 , Gordon Webber, What end but love :
* {{quote-book, 1988, S.P. Vander Kloet, The Genus Vaccinium in North America, isbn=0660130378
, passage=Vaccinium erythrocarpum , the dingleberry , sometimes produces berries of excellent flavor, which are used locally for jellies; Uphof (1968) reports that this species has been recommended for cultivation.}}
(dated, manufacturing) Any residual irregularity following processing
* {{quote-us-patent, 1951, Charles Diehl, Method for Welding a Joint, 2747065, page=3
, passage=The contour of the root bead is very irregular and solidified drops of metal, "cherries" or "dingleberries ," extend therefrom evidencing burn-throughs.}}
* {{quote-news, 1966, May 20, , Stymied by Seniority, Time
, passage=That still left the problem of deciding on the "dingleberries "—the employees who would be exempt from seniority restrictions because of "special skills and outstanding abilities." }}
* {{quote-us-patent, 1967, M.R. Calton, Welding of Dispersion-Strengthened Alloys, 3477117, page=6
, passage=It is theorized that when the surface velocity is below certain minimum values the material at the interface between workpieces WP-1 and WP-2 rolls up and extrudes from the interface in the form of long twisted cylindrical projections which are sometimes referred to as "dingle-berries ." }}
(slang) A small piece of feces clumped to hair around the anus.
(slang) A stupid person.
(nautical) The steering apparatus of a ship, especially the tiller or wheel.
(maritime) The member of the crew in charge of steering the boat.
(figurative) A position of leadership or control.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=January 11
, author=Jonathan Stevenson
, title=West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham
, work=BBC
One at the place of direction or control; a guide; a director.
* Shakespeare
(heraldry) A helmet.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A helve.
To be a helmsman or a member of the helm; to be in charge of steering the boat.
* Tennyson
(by extension) To lead (a project, etc.).
* 2014 , Malcolm Jack, "
* Shakespeare
(archaic) A helmet.
:* Luken sweord longe, leiden o þe helmen . — Layamon's Brut, 1275
:: (They drew their swords and put on their helmen .)
:* Þe helm of hel and þe swerd of þe Spirit. — An Apology for Lollard Doctrines, Attributed to Wycliffe, 1475
:* The kynge Ban be-gan to laugh vndir his helme . — Merlin, 1500
:* {{quote-book
, year=1927
, year_published=2008
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, author=Edgar Rice Burrows
, title=The Outlaw of Torn
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A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain.
As a noun dingleberry
is vaccinium erythrocarpum'', the southern mountain cranberry“dingleberry n” listed [http://booksgooglecouk/books?id=var2t4bh7nkc&pg=pa73 on page 73] of the ''(dictionary of american regional english) by frederic gomes cassidy and joan houston hall (1985; [http://wwwhupharvardedu/ harvard university press]; isbn 0674205111, 9780674205116).As a proper noun helm is
the only named wind in the british isles blows westward form the pennine fells over cumbria and is often accompanied by a line of clouds on top of the hills called the helm bar.dingleberry
English
(wikipedia dingleberry) (Vaccinium erythrocarpum) (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)Noun
(dingleberries)on page 73] of the ''(Dictionary of American Regional English)by Frederic Gomes Cassidy and Joan Houston Hall (1985; [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/ Harvard University Press; ISBN 0674205111, 9780674205116)
- dingleberries , or mountain-cranberries (Huge'ria'', syn. ''Oxycoccoi'des ), cranberries (Oxycoc'cus)
- Helen sat on the ground crumbling hard lumps of clay between her fingers, and tried to imagine the green place in the swamp where the dingleberries grew.
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Synonyms
* (cranberry) arando, bearberry * (stupid person) idiot, moron * (piece of faeces) (Australia) dag, (Australia) dagsReferences
helm
English
(wikipedia helm)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the helm of the Commonwealth
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- the helms o' the State, who care for you like fathers
Derived terms
* at the helm * take the helmVerb
(en verb)- A wild wave overbears the bark, / And him that helms it.
John Grant with the Royal Northern Sinfonia review – positively spine-tingling", The Guardian , 1 December 2014:
- “I wanted to change the world, but I could not even change my underwear,” sings John Grant at the piano, in a luxuriant baritone croon as thick and healthy as his beard. It’s hard to reconcile the guy who once struggled to so much as put on clean pants back in the bad old days – well-storied, not least through his own songs – with the one warmly and gracefully helming this complex, prestigious production – the penultimate date on a tour of packed concert halls, backed by an orchestra.
- the business he hath helmed
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), (etyl) . Compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Noun
(en-noun)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage="A fearful apparition," murmured Norman of Torn. "No wonder he keeps his helm closed." }}
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