Manhattanhenge n.— «Manhattanhenge Today…On these days, the Sun fully illuminates every single cross street during the last fifteen minutes of daylight and sets exactly on the street’s centerline. Upon studying American culture and...
open up daylight v. phr.— «Bellamy Road, who not only opened up daylight (that’s equine parlance for “a can of whoop-ass”) on his rivals at last weekend’s Wood Memorial (huh, you said…Oh, shut it) but also broke a 13...
visquene n.— «A crew installing new water and electrical lines at Swan Lake Memorial Gardens uncovered the leg wrapped in heavy plastic or a material commonly referred to as visquene.» —“Experts to look at severed leg” by...
descanso n. a roadside marker or memorial to a victim of an automobile accident. Etymological Note: From Spanish descanso ‘resting place (of a dead person),’ from the verb descansar ‘to (have a) rest.’ (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
descanso n.— «Alongside Interstate 80 in Knowlton Township is something called a descanso, a Spanish word that means a roadside memorial. It is for state Trooper Philip Lamonaco.» —“Tenuous Bond Links Two Memorials” by Rod...
drying rock n.— «The Court referred there to the case of a “low-tide elevation (drying rock)”…without adopting a position on whether, and in what circumstances, such a feature might be taken into account as a basepoint...