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Meanings of jackboot in English
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Examples for "hessian"
Examples for "hessian"
1
And the entreaty wasn't made with a hessian sack full of pineapples.
2
It came, from Sap Nurseries of Mitchelstown, well protected in hessian and wire.
3
His jazz CDs are transported in a crisp hessian bag patterned with ladybirds.
4
Poppies was crammed with hessian sacks of corn, cans of jam, and corned meat.
5
He could see his hessian boots protruding from the other side of the truck.
1
At last Dick appeared, looking splendid in red tights and Hessian boots.
2
He must be absolutely shaking in those hugely expensive Hessian boots of his.
3
He wore Hessian boots; a voluminous black cloak hung loosely from his shoulders.
4
He wore an old-fashioned suit, a droll sort of cap, and Hessian boots.
5
He could see his hessian boots protruding from the other side of the truck.
1
Mr McSherry said Wellington Water had teams available if new problems arose.
2
Foster said it was time to ask Wellington Water some frank questions.
3
Mr Hill said the situation facing Wellington Hospital was complex and difficult.
4
Central Wellington tenant Annie Dick said her flat had problem after problem.
5
Water flowing underground News flash: scientists say there's water in Wellington Harbour.
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Shabby and scuffed, a pungent fug of Wellington boot and Labrador certainly pervaded.
2
He has a Wellington boot on one foot, and a spiked boot on the other.
3
White horses on the near-Atlantic, wild southeasterlies and Wellington boot weather might make any racecourse manager want to roll over in bed.
4
It is utterly without caste or pretension, a Wellington boot that doesn't care whether its owner is Cinderella or a South African shepherd.
5
He was wearing a green wax jacket, a cap and wellington boots.
Usage of jackboot in English
1
Boots suggest the jackboot of political domination and famine stalking the land.
2
I recalled that the unlucky Polish jackboot had served the French auxiliaries.
3
Who put their jackboot on the control panel?' the fair-haired man grinned.
4
He felt as if someone had put a jackboot into his ribs.
5
A jackboot stamped on his fingers, twisted, ground them into the stone.
6
A half-empty bottle of brandy was sticking up out of a jackboot.
7
Globus placed a gleaming jackboot on the arm and kicked, sending it spinning.
8
It was part of a jackboot, with a rusty stud still attached to it.
9
Which was a paradox, because you couldn't keep the jackboot stamping down for ever.
10
He became a jackboot for all types of men who have fought, a good servant.
11
Jack brought his other heel down, the steel of his jackboot snapping off the encrusted bones.
12
This is further underlined by a veil-enveloped chorus, while the threat of the jackboot hovers menacingly throughout.
13
We're under the jackboot of American capitalism!
14
For, at his wincing and shrinking, his friend had taken a penknife and ripped up the jackboot.
15
Up here, a jackboot could stifle it.
16
Let's call a jackboot a jackboot, okay?
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Frequent collocations
Jackboot through the time