dollies

Noun

dolly (plural dollies)

1. (childish, colloquial) A doll.
   • ‘He pushed one of my dolly’s eyes in,’ sobbed Dora, hugging her dolly as she replied.1867 July 1, S.T.C., “The Harleys of Chelsea Place”, in The Christian Treasury, page 344
2. A roughly cylindrical wooden object used as a base when molding pie crust.
3. A disc with downward legs and a vertical handle, used for agitating laundry.
   • LAUNDRY.
     1 Dolly tub and pegs
     2 Mangle
     3 Washing machine1840, R. White (Auctioneer), Sale at Woodhouse Place, near Mansfield. Catalogue of the valuable and useful household furniture [etc.], Third Day's Sale. Wednesday, November 4th, 1840

   Synonyms:

   posser

4. A device turned on a vertical axis by a handle or a winch, giving a circular motion to ore being washed.
   • The dolly tub or rinsing bucket, fig. 630., has an upright shaft which bears the vane or dolly a b, turned by the winch handle.1840, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, page 751
5. A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
   • A, is the steam or air cylinder for forcing the dolly B, hard against the rivet head while rivetting: when used for making rivets the dolly B, is unshipped, and the rivet heading apparatus substituted.1864, William Newton, “To Andrew Shanks, of Robert-street, Adelphi, for an improved rivetting machine”, in Newton's London Journal of Arts, page 279
6. In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

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