How to pronounce “dolly”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (childish, colloquial) A doll.
• (cooking) A roughly cylindrical wooden object used as a base when molding pie crust.
• A contrivance for stirring:
• A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
• In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
• A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
• A small truck without means of steering, to be slipped under a load.
• An unpowered vehicle (trailer) designed for connection to a tractor unit, truck or prime mover vehicle, with strong traction power.
• A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
• (film) A specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted.
• (slang) A young woman, especially one who is frivolous or vapid. [from 1790s][3]
• (slang, UK, dated) A fashionable young woman, one who follows the latest music or clothing fashions. [1960s]
• (cricket, dated) A ball hit by a batsman such that it goes gently to a fielder for a simple catch.
• (gambling) A marker placed on the winning number by the dealer at roulette.
• Ellipsis of dolly shop.
• (obsolete) An old gambling device, found in dolly shops, with the figure of an old man or "dolly", and a spiral hole down which a dropped marble would proceed to one of a set of numbered holes.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, cricket) To hit a dolly.
• (transitive) To move (an object) using a dolly.
• (intransitive) To move a camera (usually toward or away from its subject) using a dolly.
• (transitive) To wash (laundry) in a tub using the stirring device called a dolly.
• (transitive) To beat (red-hot metal) with a hammer.
• (transitive) To crush ore with a dolly.
• [Adjective]
• (Polari) Pretty; attractive.
• (Yorkshire, especially Sheffield) Left-handed (also dolly-handed, dolly-pawed, dolly-posh).[6]

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