gunter
a jib-headed sail fastened to a vertical spar that is attached to a short mast, usually by two rings, in such a way that the spar can slide up the mast to spread the sail.
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Edmund, 1581–1626, English mathematician and astronomer: inventor of various measuring instruments and scales.
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Here Muehl appears alongside Hermann Nitsch, gunter Brus, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler, his fellow founders of Aktionism in 1964.
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When I met the couple in 2003, gunter smiled indulgently at this.
Liza Featherstone on Dee gunter, one plaintiff behind the largest sex discrimination case in U.S. history.
He published several hundred book reviews on writers as diverse as gunter Grass and Yashar Kemal.
I wud advise a man who is aisily affected be books to stick to Archibald Clavering gunter.
Mr. Dooley Says | Finley DunneThis Mr. R. gunter has done on the most liberal and extensive scale, and with great and merited success.
The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple | John Claudius LoudonMr. gunter tried to substitute the heat of steam for that of tan, as a bottom heat, but did not succeed.
The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple | John Claudius LoudonThe mathematical works of gunter and Newton, particularly the former, are surprisingly destitute of mathematical symbols.
William Oughtred | Florian CajoriAt gunter we started formation flying, night flying and instrument flying.
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British Dictionary definitions for Gunter
/ (ˈɡʌntə) /
Edmund. 1581–1626, English mathematician and astronomer, who invented various measuring instruments, including Gunter's chain
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