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Look up: Widow-maker

  1. widow maker
    anything liable to cause death or serious injury of a workman.
    Found on http://www.workover.co.uk/og/w.htm

  2. Widow maker
    A `widow maker` is a nickname used to describe a highly stenotic left main coronary artery or proximal left anterior descending coronary artery of the heart. This term is used because if the artery gets completely occluded it will cause a massive heart attack that will likely lead to death. Category:Cardiovascular diseases Category:Medical terms
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widow_maker

  3. Widow-maker
    Wid'ow-mak`er noun One who makes widows by destroying husbands. [ R.] Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/37

  4. Widow-maker
    • (n.) One who makes widows by destroying husbands.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  5. Widow-maker
    a term for the bowsprit (many sailors lost their lives falling off the bowsprit while tending sails).
    Found on http://www.sailinglinks.com/glossary.htm

  6. Widowermaker
    `Widowermaker` is the third studio EP by American punk band Butthole Surfers, released in September 1989. All songs were written by the Butthole Surfers. This was the band's last release on Touch and Go Records.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widowermake

  7. Widowmaker
    Widowmaker can refer to: `Names or titles in literature, film, and music:` * K-19: The Widowmaker A movie about the K-19 submarine. * `The Widow Maker`, a song on Robert Calvert's Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters album, which is about the F-104. * Widowmaker (band), a 1970s rock band. * `Widowmaker`, a song by Pantera from their 1983 album `Metal Magic`. `Nicknames or fictional characters:` * The Sword of Khaine in the Warhammer gaming uni...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widowmaker


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23 November 2009

This day in history:
At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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