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/ˈspeɪsɚ/ · noun
An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type..
The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers.
It was the futile throwing back in the face of the Spacers their most keenly felt insult: their insistence on considering the natives of Earth as disgustingly diseased.
"How do I know I can trust you?" asked BKR. Grakker hesitated. "Spacer's oath," he said at last.
Shepard: What are you running for? Charles Saracino: I'm seeking one of the five spacer seats in Parliament. They have certain baroque conditions for a citizen to be able to vote for them. Charles Saracino: You have to spend more than six months a year in space. But you can't have stayed in any one settled system for more than a month.
He was thankful that he still had his suit on when the ship had a catastrophic decompression, a spacer's worst nightmare.
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Spacer means An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type..
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The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers.
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