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Dolly

noun

(pl. dollies)

Conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted.

Conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects.

A small replica of a person; used as a toy. Synonym: doll.

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"Dolly" Quotes from Famous Books

... Dolly and May were delighted, and Mother said they might stay out all the morning. For the first hour they were very happy—there were so many new things to show Charlie; but he was one of those restless boys who get tired ...

— Laugh and Play - A Collection of Original stories • Various

... Dick and Dolly are brother and sister, and their games, their pranks, their joys and sorrows, are told in a manner which makes the stories ...

— The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp - Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats • Laura Lee Hope

... I could make as good a guess as you could at what young Mrs. Vandeman's capable of; a dolly face, and behind ...

— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan

... was said that he carried out books in his ship, and read and studied, and wrote observations on all the countries he saw, which Parson Smith told Miss Dolly Persimmon would really do credit to a printed book; but then they never were printed, or, as Miss Dolly remarked of them, they never seemed to come to anything,—and coming to anything, as she understood it, meant standing in definite relations ...

— The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 • Various

... dolly, Lewie. If you will be very careful, I will let you take her. See her beautiful eyes! Will Lewie make her open and shut ...

— Lewie - Or, The Bended Twig • Cousin Cicely

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