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From: mcdermot@unmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: "Play" as term for printing out?
Message-ID: <271@unmvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 22:21:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 20 22:21:44 1984
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Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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My dictionary (American Heritage) says `play' can mean to "discharge."
Maybe that's where it came from.  Also, one "plays out" fishing line,
meaning that the line is discharged from the reel.


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