Dictionary entry

Sub-machine gun

Pronunciation: /sʌbməˈʃiːn ɡʌn/

Pronunciation

/sʌbməˈʃiːn ɡʌn/

Myanmar Meaning

လက်နှင့် ကိုင်၍ ပစ်ရသော အပေါ့စား စက်သေနတ်။

Definition

steeplejack /'sti:pldʒæk / n ေမွ်ာ္စင္အထြတ္၊ ေခါင္းတိုင္အျမင့္တို႔ကို တက္၍ ျပင္ဆင္၊ ေဆးသုတ္သူ။

Examples

  1. ‘These modern-day steeplejacks do something I would never contemplate - climbing towers and literally hanging off them.’
  2. ‘A councillor is supporting calls for a memorial to be placed on the site of a former factory in Westhoughton where two steeplejacks were killed.’
  3. ‘They may be miners or steeplejacks
  4. bank clerks or civil servants: it's just that whatever they do for a living and however hard they work at it
  5. they are never going to become multimillionaires.’
  6. ‘‘I could have died a happy steeplejack on that job
  7. ’ says Fred.’
  8. ‘Visitors to the steam and vintage fair will be asked to make a donation to the appeal to provide a lasting memorial to the Bolton steeplejack who died of cancer last November.’
  9. ‘Dublin-based company Rainey and Co have employed the steeplejacks who braved last week's high winds.’
  10. ‘Three men were fined a total of £17
  11. 000 today after pleading guilty to breaches of health and safety regulations that led to the death of two steeplejacks.’
  12. ‘In January this year steeplejacks climbed 100 ft above the minister floor and painstakingly removed sections
  13. to assess what needed to be done and how much it might cost.’
  14. ‘In this way
  15. like superior steeplejacks
  16. climbers overcame these gigantic cliffs
  17. a voyage of discovery on an ocean of fear.’
  18. ‘People in other occupations - say
  19. steeplejacks
  20. miners
  21. deep-sea divers
  22. anyone working with asbestos - may be exposed to higher risks of job related disease or death.’
  23. ‘The celebrity steeplejack started building a fully-working Victorian mineshaft behind his house in Radcliffe Road
  24. Bolton
  25. without asking permission.’
  26. ‘Ultimately
  27. the computer doesn't care how we get to a final software design any more than the steeplejack building a bridge cares how the bridge design was refined and validated.’
  28. ‘Originally a steeplejack
  29. Fred became an unlikely celebrity and has been the star of more than 20 documentaries uncovering Britain's industrial heritage.’
  30. ‘When his first wife walked out on him
  31. she accused the eccentric
  32. chimney-toppling steeplejack of living in the last century.’
  33. ‘Bert
  34. pictured
  35. who is the third generation of his family to work for the company
  36. was the youngest steeplejack in the city when he started out on April 7
  37. 1953.’
  38. ‘Celebrity steeplejack Fred Dibnah was supposed to end his days of felling factory chimneys with the demolition of the 175-ft Park Mill chimney in Royton yesterday.’
  39. ‘Archibald
  40. Gilchrist and Muir had an information storage and retrieval system which required the services of a suicidal steeplejack.’
  41. ‘The celebrity steeplejack started building the pithead system with a 70 ft mineshaft to pay tribute to Bolton's history
  42. but got into trouble after neighbours complained.’
  43. ‘His grandmother was a widow whose steeplejack husband had died in a tragic accident
  44. and who subsequently lost two of her four sons in the war.’
  45. ‘Originally a steeplejack
  46. cloth-capped Fred became an unlikely celebrity and has been the star of more than 20 documentaries uncovering Britain's industrial heritage.’