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Flushing

[ fluhsh-ing ]

noun

  1. Dutch Vlissingen. a seaport on Walcheren Island, in the SW Netherlands.


Flushing

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/ ˈڱʌʃɪŋ /

noun

  1. a port in the SW Netherlands, in Zeeland province, on Walcheren Island, at the mouth of the West Scheldt river: the first Dutch city to throw off Spanish rule (1572). Pop: 45 000 (2003 est) Dutch nameVlissingen
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

flushing

2

/ ˈڱʌʃɪŋ /

noun

  1. an extra feeding given to ewes before mating to increase the lambing percentage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Sudden flushing of this silt can cause significant downstream damage.

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Usually he laughs at the expense of others, but he did a rare thing and laughed at himself last week as he was talking about water pressure in showers, flushing toilets and washing his hair.

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Irate, the woman shrieked, shoved something in the holding cell toilet and started frantically flushing to flood the cell.

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Plane toilets store human waste in special tanks and use a vacuum system for flushing.

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Before Albarran’s purchase was final, he charged to a union credit card roughly $1,500 in mechanical work and improvements to the car, including installing two new tires and flushing its transmission, the sources said.

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