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Short of or lacking the regular number of servants or helpers...
Notes, Judge's
Notes, Judge's. a judge usually takes notes of the viva voce evidence given during the trial of an action, and these are in practice always referred to on appeal, although they cannot be obtained as a matter of right. In criminal trials the judge must, it seems, take such notes and furnish them, in cases of appeal, to the Court of Criminal Appeal [(English) Court of Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, ss. 8 and 9(a); and Criminal Appeal Rules, 1908, r. 14]. At the trial or hearing of any action or matter in the county court in which there is a right of appeal, the judge, at the request of either party, shall make a note of any question of law raised, and of the facts in evidence relating thereto, and of his decision thereon, and of his decision of the action or matter. Any party to the action is entitled to a copy at his own expense [(English) County Courts Act, 1888, ss. 120 and 121]. See now County Courts Act, 1934 (c. 53), ss. 105, 108; and McGrah v. Cartwright (1889) 23 QBD 3, as to the dut...
Brachygrapher
A writer in short hand a stenographer...
Pudgy
Short and fat or sturdy dumpy podgy as a short pudgy little man a pudgy little hand...
Clubhand
A short distorted hand also the deformity of having such a hand...
Dart
A pointed missile weapon intended to be thrown by the hand a short lance a javelin hence any sharp pointed missile weapon as an arrow...
Billhook
A thick heavy knife with a hooked point used in pruning hedges etc When it has a short handle it is sometimes called a hand bill when the handle is long a hedge bill or scimiter...
Carpus
The wrist the bones or cartilages between the forearm or antibrachium and the hand or forefoot in man consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows...
Hatchet
A small ax with a short handle to be used with one hand...
Howitzer
A gun so short that the projectile which was hollow could be put in its place by hand a kind of mortar...
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