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five-finger

[ fahyv-fing-ger ]

noun

  1. any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.


five-finger

noun

  1. any of various plants having five-petalled flowers or five lobed leaves, such as cinquefoil and Virginia creeper
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of five-finger1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English fīffingre
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Example Sentences

To accomplish this I began with the most elementary exercises in five-finger position, using one finger at a time.

The music-room resounded with five-finger improvisations and with vocalists who had little but their voices left.

We invited the priest in and poured him out a stiff five-finger peg of neat Scotch whisky.

With it I can play the most difficult work ever written as easily as I can a five-finger exercise.

I told them we ought to see the boat line up through the Five-Finger Rapids.

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