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Dumb-bell   Listen
noun
dumb-bell, dumbbell  n.  
1.
An exercising weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise.
2.
An ignorant or foolish person.
Synonyms: dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead.





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"Dumb-bell" Quotes from Famous Books



... lot of wood dumb-bells and painted one of the balls of each dumb-bell black to stand for a sodium atom, leaving the other unpainted to stand for a chlorine atom. Now try to pile them up so that above and below each black ball, to the right and left of it, and also in front and behind it, there shall be ...
— Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills
... queer bit of bone with a feather in one end and a scrap of rabbit fur around it, the thoughts were good for them. It did for their small brains just what a boy does for his arm when he swings a club or a dumb-bell. It made them stronger, so that they could use them for other things ...
— The Iron Star - And what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages • John Preston True
... tyre, Don't be a dumb-bell; Run from the dumb ducks, Run from the plumbers. Ha! Ha! ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton


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