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Pulaski

1

[ puh-las-kee ]

noun

  1. Count Cas·i·mir [kaz, -, uh, -meer], 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
  2. a town in SW Virginia.
  3. Fort. Fort Pulaski.


Pulaski

2

[ puh-las-kee ]

noun

  1. a double-edged hand tool having an ax blade on one side and a pickax or wide chisel on the opposite side, used especially in clearing land and removing tree stumps.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Pulaski1

1920–25, Americanism; after Edward C. Pulaski (1866–1931), U.S. forest ranger, its inventor

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Example Sentences

Like too many other parts of the country, though, Pulaski doesn’t have enough housing supply to meet this coming growth in demand.

Project Virginia, as it’s aptly been dubbed, launched in late April with two homes in Pulaski, a small town with 9,000 residents in the western part of the state.

No one, though, is trying in totality what has worked so well at Pulaski, so Presbyterian can expect to have an unusual spotlight on it this season.

April also saw Kelley, 51, inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame for his exploits at Pulaski.

Prosecutors in the state’s most populous county, Pulaski, have stopped accepting the filings altogether.

The incoming Constitutionalist president is General George Pulaski.

The group formed in Pulaski, Tenn., became the most well-known: the Ku Klux Klan.

The gentleman from Pulaski calmly waited for a completer silence than the day had known.

Yet all other human beings save the gentleman from Pulaski were as nothing, it seemed, to the chairman.

The delegate from Marion, like the mysterious person from Pulaski, was a stranger to state conventions.

While the French were bombarding that city from their ships, the Americans, led by Pulaski, tried to storm it .

As they passed old Fort Pulaski, Ralph ventured to question the pilot on the roof.

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