Blucher

Definition: Blucher

Blucher

Noun

1. A high shoe with laces over the tongue.

Date "blucher" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

Specialty Definition: Blucher

Domain	Definition
Biographical Satire	BLUCHER, a Dutchman who was on the job at Waterloo. He also was not the only German general who ever fought France. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
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Specialty Definition: Blucher

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Blucher was an early railway locomotive built in 1814 by George Stephenson for the Killingworth Colliery.
The Blucher was the first successful locomotive incorporating the following design features:

Flanged wheels keeping the locomotive on the tracks
Traction only relying on the friction of wheels on rails
Cylinder rods directly connected to the wheel disks

The Blucher was able to pull a train of thirty tons with a speed of 4 mph. The locomotive was named after the Prussian general Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher who helped Britain defeat Napoleon at Waterloo.
Other early locomotive designs

Salamanca by John Blenkinsop
Puffing Billy by William Hedley
Sans Pareil by Timothy Hackworth
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blucher."

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Synonym: Blucher

Synonym: bluchers (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Blucher

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Clothing	Shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, galoshes, patten, clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral; arctics, bootee, bootikin, brogan, chaparajos; chavar, chivarras, chivarros; gums, larrigan, rubbers, showshoe, stogy, veldtschoen, legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, gamache, gamashes, moccasin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antigropelos; stocking, hose, gaskins, trunk hose, sock; hosiery.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Blucher

English words defined with "blucher": battle of Waterloo ♦ Waterloo. (references)

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Modern Usage: Blucher

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Let's set the facts straight. First off, there was no raping; very little pillaging and Frau Blucher popped all the eyeballs (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)
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Commercial Usage: Blucher

Domain	Title
Books	Blucher and the Uprising of Prussia Against Napoleon: 1806-15 (Heroes of the Nations) (reference) BLUCHER METAL A/S: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) Heavy Cruisers of the Admiral Hipper Class: Admiral Hipper, Blucher, Prinz Eugen, Seydlitz, Lutzow (reference) Napoleon and Blucher (reference) The Life and Campaigns of Field Marshal Prince Blucher (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Blucher

Illustrations: Blucher
	Subject(s): ... General, Blucher, man, collar ...
	Subject(s): ... Marshal, Prince, Blucher ...
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Use in Literature: Blucher

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Blucher gave orders to kill all.
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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Blucher

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
blucher	17
blucher edgard editora	7
blucher cruiser	4
admiral admiral blucher class cruiser eugen heavy hipper hipper lutzow prince seydlitz	4
blucher edgard	3
blucher boot	2
blucher josam	2
blucher frau	2
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Derivations & Misspellings: Blucher

Derivations
	Words beginning with "blucher": bluchers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Blucher" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baluch, Baluchi, Baluchis, Bhuchar, Blache, Blecher, Blechner, Bleher, Bletcher, bleucher, Blokhin, Bluchner, bluecher, blutcher, bluther, bouche, boucher, bucer, bucher, buchet, Buchez, Buchler, Bukha, Buscher, loucher. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Blucher

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-h-l-r-u"
	-1 letter: cherub.
	-2 letters: belch, bluer, churl, cruel, cuber, lucre, lurch, ruble, ruche, ulcer.
	-3 letters: blue, blur, buhl, buhr, burl, chub, club, clue, cube, curb, cure, curl, ecru, herb, herl, hurl, lech, lehr, lube, luce, lure, rube, rule.
	-4 letters: bel, bur, cel, cub, cue, cur, ecu, her, hub, hue, leu, reb, rec, rub, rue, urb.
	-5 letters: be.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-h-l-r-u"
	+1 letter: bluchers.
	+2 letters: butcherly, crushable.
	+3 letters: cherublike, crunchable.
	+4 letters: breechclout, copublisher, hibernacula, huckleberry, purchasable, uncrushable, unreachable.
	+5 letters: breechclouts, cherubically, copublishers, hibernaculum, nightclubber, noncrushable, swashbuckler, unbreachable, uncharitable, unsearchable, unsearchably.
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