Sam
a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,095 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,495 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target also: surface-to-air missile
Sam in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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SAM, ask the gentleman behind if his boy would like a ginger-nut.
Punch — Volume 100, January 31, 1891 · Various · Chapter 1
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You're a pair of cowards, that's whut ye are, and so I'll tell Sam.
The City of Fire · Grace Livingston Hill · Chapter 3
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For that matter 'e was a shipmate o' Peter Russet's and old Sam Small's too.
Bill's Lapse Odd Craft, Part 4. · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1
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And Sam, her husband, worked around the house, carrying out ashes, cutting the grass, and such things as that.
The Bobbsey Twins at Home · Laura Lee Hope · Chapter 1
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Kind-'artedness is often only another name for artfulness, same as Sam Small's kindness to Ginger Dick and Peter Russet.
The Guardian Angel Ship's Company, Part 7. · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1