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A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole in any manner as by cutting splitting breaking or tearing a part a portion as a piece of sugar to break in pieces...
Bail-piece
Bail-piece, a piece of parchment containing the names of special bail, with other particulars, which, being signed by a judge, was filed in the court in which the action was pending, and notice of the bail having justified was then given to the opposite party....
satisfaction piece
satisfaction piece : a formal written acknowledgment by an obligee (as a mortgagee) that an obligation has been satisfied and that the obligor is discharged ...
Piecely
In pieces piecemeal...
Committitur piece
Committitur piece, an instrument in writing on parchment, which charges a person, already in prison, in execution at the suit of the person who arrested him, 2 Ch. Arch....
Slide rule
a thin flat calculating device consisting of a fixed outer piece and a movable middle piece Both pieces are graduated in such a way as by a logarithmic scale that multiplication division and other mathematical functions of an input variable may be rapidly determined by movement of the middle pieces to a location on one scale corresponding to the input value and reading off the result on another scale A movable window with a hairline assists in alignment of the scales This device has been largely superseded by the electronic calculator which has a greater precision than the slide rule Also called colloquially slipstick...
job
job jobbed job·bing vi 1 : to do odd or occasional pieces of work for hire 2 : to carry on the business of a middleman or wholesaler vt 1 : to buy and sell (as stock) for profit 2 : to hire or let by the job or for a period of service 3 : to do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots : subcontract n 1 a : a piece of work ;esp : a small miscellaneous piece of work undertaken on order at a stated rate b : the object or material on which work is being done 2 a : a specific duty, role, or function [a description] b : a regular remunerative position on the job : at work ...
Pauldron
A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece...
Sheet and sheetings
Sheet and sheetings, the Indian Standards Institution also defines 'sheets' as a piece of plastic 'sheeting' produced as an individual piece rather than in a continuous length or cut as an individual piece from a continuous length, Collector of Customs v. K. Mohan & Co., AIR 1989 SC 2250: (1989) Supp 2 SCC 337: (1989) Supp 1 SCR 231....
ground
ground 1 : the foundation or basis on which knowledge, belief, or conviction rests : a premise, reason, or collection of data upon which something (as a legal action or argument) relies for validity [sued the city on the that the city…had wrongfully released…records "City of Lawton v. Moore, 868 P.2d 690 (1993)"] [listed adultery and alcoholism as the s for divorce] 2 : a piece or parcel of land [the design being to create high for use during overflow periods "Bright v. Perkins, 239 S.W.2d 281 (1951)"] [a sudden disruption of a piece of from one man's land "Porter v. Arkansas Western Gas Co., 482 S.W.2d 598 (1972)"] ground·less adj ground·less·ly adv ground·less·ness n vt : to furnish a ground for : set on a basis [that court ed the disclosure requirement in negligence law "Scott v. Bradford, 606 P.2d 554 (1979)"] [an argument ed on erroneous assumptions] ...
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