Dutchman

Definitions

1. A piece of wood or stone used to repair a larger piece, shaped such that it fills as exactly as possible a void or cavity that is to be repaired.
2. A Dutch man; a man from the Netherlands.
3. A nickname for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
   US
4. A flaw or void repaired with such a piece.
5. A man of Dutch descent.
6. A cloth strip attached to a flat to conceal a joint.
7. A male Pennsylvania German.
   US
8. Ellipsis of Flying Dutchman (“a ghost ship”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
9. A male German.
   archaic, dated
10. A male white Afrikaner.
    South-Africa, derogatory
11. Ellipsis of Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

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Examples

“About ten months ago a report⟳ reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen distinctly as if near; […]”

“[…]There have⟳ been at least four legendary Lost Dutchman's gold mines in the American West, including the famed Superstition mine of Jacob Waltz.”

“[…]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.”

“President Roosevelt called a press⟳ conference in the Oval Office. [...] when asked where the Billys had originated, the Dutchman smiled broadly [...].”

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