Tubman

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One of the two most experienced barristers in the Exchequer of Pleas (the other being the postman). UK, obsolete
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

    "I hadn't told anyone she was going to have a baby, except Jimmy Fargo. I tell him just about everything. And Sheila Tubman knew, because she lives in our building and could see that Mom was pregnant."

Synonyms

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harriet tubman

Example

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""People are fascinated with Harriet Tubman because they see her as an ordinary person who rose up against all odds to escape the savagery of slavery," said Donald Pinder, president of a group that runs the Harriet Tubman Museum in Cambridge, Maryland."

Etymology

From tub + -man.

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