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Definition of Toeholds
1. toehold [n] - See also: toehold
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toeholds
Literary usage of Toeholds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best by Lindley Murray (1817)
".\t the close of hfe, the dying man toeholds \riib anguish that displays are
finishing, when his prc¡;a. ra'ion for ..."
2. Principles of the Law of Real Property: Intended as a First Book for the Use by Joshua Williams, Thomas Cyprian Williams (1906)
"... shall, when registered, in of toeholds. all respects, and in particular as
respects any registered dealings on the part of the transferee, have the same ..."
3. Getting to the Top in the USSR: Cyclical Patterns in the Leadership by R. Judson Mitchell (1990)
"... success for the "two-track" policy, and now the Soviets continued arms control
negotiations with the United States, while expanding toeholds in Angola ..."
4. Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa by Joseph H. Alexander (1996)
"The fighting was still intense, the Japanese fire still murderous, but the
surviving Marines were on the move, no longer gridlocked in precarious toeholds ..."
5. War Readings by National Board for Historical Service (1918)
"... we threaded a couple of miles of steep, zigzagging trail, climbed a hundred
feet of ladder and about the same distance of rocky toeholds—the latter by ..."
6. An Introduction to the History of the Law of Real Property, with Original by Kenelm Edward Digby (1884)
"construction of, 339-341. — speaks from death. 341. — revocation of, 343, 347.
34*. — of married women. 246. 298, 347. — of toeholds, V—*«M.. ..."
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