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  Word: Procrustes

  ID	Word	Wordtype	Definition
  120654	Procrustes	n.	A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes.

  
  

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