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BEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mountain or tall hill
Example:
they were climbing the ben
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("ben" is a kind of...):
mount; mountain (a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill)
Domain region:
Emerald Isle; Hibernia; Ireland (an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)
Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)
Context examples:
Hist, now, between you an’ meself and the stanchion there, this Wolf Larsen is a regular devil, an’ the Ghost’ll be a hell-ship like she’s always ben since he had hold iv her.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
That winter I refused twelve hundred for 'm. I didn't sell 'm then, an' I ain't a-sellin' 'm now. Besides, I think a mighty lot of that dog. I've ben lookin' for 'm for three years. It made me fair sick when I found he'd ben stole—not the value of him, but the—well, I liked 'm like hell, that's all, beggin' your pardon.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
But when I've ben workin' like a slave all week, I just got to bowl up.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Ben's a good runner; few seamen run better than Ben. He should run him down, hand over hand, by the powers!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
"Look here, Mr. Scott," Matt objected; "that dog's ben through hell. You can't expect 'm to come out a white an' shinin' angel. Give 'm time."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
After I've ben workin' like hell all week I just got to booze up. If I didn't, I'd cut my throat or burn up the premises.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Ben, in his long, lonely wanderings about the island, had found the skeleton—it was he that had rifled it; he had found the treasure; he had dug it up (it was the haft of his pick-axe that lay broken in the excavation); he had carried it on his back, in many weary journeys, from the foot of the tall pine to a cave he had on the two-pointed hill at the north-east angle of the island, and there it had lain stored in safety since two months before the arrival of the HISPANIOLA.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Wolf or dog, it's all the same—he's ben tamed 'ready.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I've ben drawin' down sixty, the second man forty.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I've ben drunk once since I seen you last, an' then it was unexpected, bein' on an empty stomach.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
