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Steel band   /stil bænd/   Listen
Steel band

noun
1.
A band that plays instruments made from the heads of oil drums (Caribbean Islands).





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"Steel band" Quotes from Famous Books



... how great the stammerer's knowledge may be, he often appears to be illiterate simply because he is unable to express himself in words. His knowledge is locked up by his infirmity, the same as though he had a steel band drawn over his mouth and fastened with a padlock which he is unable to unlock for want of a proper key. The man with the locked-up knowledge is under as great a handicap ...
— Stammering, Its Cause and Cure • Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
... if we tried to storm Lee's lines. After Cold Harbor the general won't attempt it, and I see a long wait here. But we can afford it. The South grows steadily weaker. Our blockade clamps like a steel band, and presses tighter and tighter all the time. Food is scarce in the Confederacy. So is ammunition. They receive no recruits, and every day the army of Lee is smaller in numbers than it was the ...
— The Tree of Appomattox • Joseph A. Altsheler
... of men around the fighters contract; she saw Trevison dive headlong at the kneeling man; with fingers working in a fury of impotence she swayed at the iron rail, leaning far over it, her eyes strained, her breath bated, constricting her lungs as though a steel band were around them. For she seemed to feel ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer


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