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dav·en·port 1  (dăvən-pôrt′)
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Tweet n. A compact desk having many small drawers, pigeonholes, and a hinged lid that can be folded over to cover the desktop. [Perhaps from the name of a manufacturer or the person who originally commissioned the design.] |
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dav·en·port 2 (dăvən-pôrt′)
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Tweet n. A large sofa, sometimes one that is convertible into a bed. [After the A.H. Davenport Company, a furniture manufacturer in Boston in the 1800s.] |
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American zoologist who advocated the selective breeding of humans in works such as Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (1911). |
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English-born Puritan who fled to America (1637) and helped found a colony at New Haven, Connecticut. |
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A city of eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River opposite Moline and Rock Island, Illinois. It grew rapidly after the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi was completed in 1856. |
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