motherload
[...] there was no way Apple could win the motherload of customers [...] --Peter Burrows, "Should Apple Open Up?", Business Week, January 11, 2006 I've seen this a couple...
chappal
"[...] Not some mullah, some sepoy, wearing out my chappals in hard service.[...]" --White Teeth, by Zadie Smith, 2000; p. 74 of the 2000 Vintage International trade paperback edition...
Vitruvian
That famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, showing a man standing in a circle with his arms out? I never knew it had a name. It's called the Vitruvian Man,...
buffer
"I can't expect two youngsters like you to find it much fun talking to an old buffer like me." --The Magician's Nephew, by C. S. Lewis, first published 1955;...
estre
"And tomorrow [...], shalt come over all the castle with me and see the estres and mark all its strength and weakness[....]" --The Horse and His Boy, by C....
coil
"What coil are you keeping down there, Mullugutherum?" --The Silver Chair, by C. S. Lewis, written around 1953; p, 157 of the 1994 HarperTrophy paperback edition MW11 says "coil"...
lammed
They lammed each other on the head with great clumsy stone hammers. --The Silver Chair, by C. S. Lewis, written around 1953; p, 83 of the 1994 HarperTrophy paperback...
dirified
The basename is dirified (spaces replaced by underscores, other punctuation removed) in order to create a valid URL. --Movable Type 3.2 User Manual: Entry basename Anil Dash says: "Dirified...
veritable
The winning streak for this veritable show continues through its fourth year. --Amazon's editorial review of The West Wing: The Complete Fourth Season DVD It's so show-like that it's...
shod
For the Lord shall shod us in hooves of bronze and horns of iron[...] --Hitherby Dragons: Remnants (III/IV) "shod" is actually the past tense of "shoe," so "shall shod"...