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a device that supports a football off the ground preparatory to the kickoff.

The edge of a piece of material that has been beveled preparatory to making a miter joint.

Tom's folks muley said had gone to a relative's place preparatory to going west. muley was the only sharecropper to stay behind .

"I like good strong words that mean something," replied Jo, catching her hat as it took a leap off her head preparatory to flying away altogether.

Refining apparatus in which the temperature of paraffin distillates is lowered preparatory to filtering out the solid wax.

Lucien had found time, preparatory to the count's arrival, to relate many particulars respecting him to Madame Danglars.

Dis hyah Peter, Miss Pitty's coachman. Doan step down in dat mud," he ordered severely, as Scarlett gathered up her skirts preparatory to descending.