HOLLANDER • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Hollander

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/hˈɑləndər/ Listen

proper noun

Hollander n.

A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman.

A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; called also, Dutch clinker.

See images of 'Hollander'

Etymology of 'Hollander'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Hollander" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the Chows had a stockwhip, the handle of which represented about six months' untiring work on a well-selected piece of myall. Helsmok had all along been pained by the incongruity of such a gem in such keeping; and now having discharged his trespass-liability, the iron-wristed Hollander politely borrowed this jewel from its clinging owner, and so recovered his horse without difficulty. Then, when the bereaved boundary man followed him across the plain, intoning psalms of remonstrance, Helsmok, making a playful clip at a locust, awkwardly allowed the lash to curl once-and-a-half ...

— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

... greatness much exceeding whatever of that kind these our seas produce, a very ordinary understanding may at the first inspection perceive that it will be no great difficulty to out-labor and out-vie the Hollander in that ...

— The Bounty of the Chesapeake - Fishing in Colonial Virginia • James Wharton

... Niagara is a very weak grower in Holland and Panama is a very vigorous grower. My experience with these varieties is just the reverse. This seems to show that sometimes the difference in climate may cause certain characters in the plant to act differently—if the Hollander is not mistaken. ...

— Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 • Various

... very good fit, was provided for me by the costumier of the show, and with the aid of a little padding, a good deal of rouge, a long clay pipe, and a bottle of schnapps, I managed to look something like the inflated Hollander I was representing, in the centre of the group, where I was supposed to be looking on at a game of bowls. Caldecott, who was placed at a window, flirting with the maids of the Queen, was attired in a graceful costume ...

— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Harry Furniss

... thoughts of the different story of the repulse of the Great Armada: "Sir, you will not wonder at the backwardness of my thanks for the present you made me, so many days since, of the Prospect of the Medway, while the Hollander rode master in it, when I have told you that the sight of it hath led me to such reflections on my particular interest, by my employment, in the reproach due to that miscarriage, as have given me little ...

— Familiar Studies of Men & Books • Robert Louis Stevenson

More quotes...