overfall
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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overfall, a condition of the sea when it falls into breaking
waves caused by wind or
current over an irregular bottom, or by currents meeting.
Tide-rips and
tide-races frequently cause overfalls.
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Luddite's Dictionary, posted on the Internet.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 4/13/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...message, the new Luddites encouraged travel...predecessors took the Luddite moniker from a character...himself a ``Neo-Luddite'' in his 1995...the Future: The Luddites and Their War on...notes that some Luddites may be ``uncomfortable...s most notorious Luddite,'' whose ...
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TRIBUNE COLUMN Neo-Luddite discovers role in pages of encyclopedia
Newspaper article from: Columbia Daily Tribune; 3/12/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Johnny-come-lately Luddite. Today's Luddites are opposed to the...a part-time neo-Luddite. I refuse to own a...the 386th time, the Luddite handiwork has reached...have no idea. Neo-Luddites like Ol' Clark are...
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The Writings of the Luddites.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...condescension" toward Luddites had become widespread...imagined as their Luddite forebears. In 1990s...referred to as a Luddite manifesto. Nowadays...style themselves Luddites when they become...claims, enables the Luddites to speak for themselves...organized by regions of Luddite ...
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'Unabomber' reminiscent of 19th-century Luddites.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 4/30/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...written about the Luddite movement _ chuckled...forevermore.'' The Luddites, who were active...deposition of a Luddite informer: ``The Luddites have in view...appearance and the Luddite movement are...historically. The Luddites arose at the...
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 "Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)")
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Why Luddites fought change; On the anniversary of the day when Huddersfield's hardman Luddite George Mellor was hanged for murder TOM WALKER, a barrister specialising in criminal and regulatory law, looks at the case. Tom now lives and works in South Wales, but grew up in the Holme Valley and went to Greenhead College between operating the turnstiles at Leeds Road. He has spent many hours researching Luddite history.(News)
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England); 1/8/2009; 700+ words
; ...breaking deeds of the Luddites may well have assumed...Indeed, the term 'Luddite' is usually reserved...correction - as the original Luddites were not opposed to...to his breeches in Luddite blood'. One afternoon...increasing brutality of the Luddites. Mellor and his accomplices...
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Steven E. Jones. Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism...cultural history of the Luddite movement and an...between the historical Luddite movement and modern...of the original Luddites, Against Technology...defended the Nottingham Luddites, and he followed...the events of the Luddite uprising ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The Luddites' lost leader. (the Unabomber and Neo-Luddism)(Lexington)(Column)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 4/13/1996; 700+ words
; ...flock to the Second Luddite Congress in Barnesville...not how many neo-Luddites see their mission...precisely those whom Luddites most abhor--computer...lunatic rather than a Luddite. Then came The...system." Any neo-Luddite might empathise...hearts of neo-Luddites must have leapt...
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Are You a Luddite?(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology; 3/22/2001; 700+ words
; ...Poxtman once referred to himself as "the resident Luddite of TECHNOS"--but we prefer to think of him ax...always struck a high, clear note. But, is he a Luddite? Are you a Luddite? According to Webster's Tenth Collegiate Dictionary...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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ONLY A LUDDITE WOULD FIGHT LEVY.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 1/22/1996; 700+ words
; ...come from present-day Luddites. The Luddites helped write a particularly...industrial revolution. Luddite was the name given in...dictionaries define Luddite as ``a person opposed...term.'' There are Luddites today, those who would...
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ON LANGUAGE: Microsoft employs Luddites to win its antitrust case
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 12/6/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...which hung the label Luddite on protesters...cause" to the Luddites. Intellectuals...inflammatory "Song for the Luddites" in 1816. Its...poet, gave the Luddite theme dramatic power...1984, "The word Luddite continues to be...something for all good Luddites to look forward...
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Luddites
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Luddites Few groups have been...and distorted than the Luddites. The term Luddite has typically referred...an important role in Luddite riots in Manchester and...political reform. The Luddites were neither the first...
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Luddite
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Luddite a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woollen mills, which they believed...
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cyber luddite
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet
cyber luddite Internet users who are against the Internet and the WORLD WIDE WEB . They form a loose collection of academics, anarchists, and...
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Sabotage
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...spontaneous—sabotage involved the Luddites of late eight eenth century England...eager to hold on to their jobs, the Luddites destroyed labor-saving machinery...READING: BOOKS: Bailey, Brian J. The Luddite Rebellion. New York: New York University...
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Technophobia
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...irresistible and hence uncontrollable by political or other means. The term Luddite is commonly used to characterize technophobes. Yet the early-nineteenth-century Luddites did not fear all technology. Rather, they attacked the specific technologies...
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