1- It means an even match. "You think one of four is an even match?" Ned was telling Rooster that he (Rooster) was hopelessly outnumbered.
2- Ned implies Rooster saw the match no more challenging than throwing a steer. Rooster was the wrestler; Ned and his cohort of three, the four legs. Ned's asking Rooster if he thinks he can wrestle the four down, resulting in a dog fall, or a type of (illegal) steer takedown in rodeo competition.
British polymath philosopher, Herbert Spencer.
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There is no such animal as a mada mada. The phrase 'mada' is a term that is used in both Hindu theology and mythology.
Catnip tea is known to help people relax and fall asleep.
The term is "on the lam", and means running away, especially from police. It was first used in the 1800's, but the origin is unknown.
Quite a lot.
If I am not mistaken, 'True Grit' is a fictional American Western novel, set in the 1800s. The contraction "ain't" was coined in 1706, but it may not have been the first.
abrasive grit, probably used in sandpaper
Grit is a word used in specification of grinding wheels. It is used with numbers. Grit means size of the grinding wheel abrasives. So 60 grit means the abrasives filtered in a sieve of size 60(60 slots/inch)
It is used to aerate the softdrinks
The tense in the phrase "he used to love" is past tense. It indicates an action that was done repeatedly or habitually in the past but is no longer true in the present.
Grit, used to clear snowy and icy surfaces of snow and ice, is actually 100% salt. They stopped using grit to clear roads in the 1920s.
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No The salt in the mixture does The grit is used for grip after the ice melts
I'm not exactly positive of the rife used in the 1969 movie True Grit, but John Wayne had a fond preference for his Winchester Model 1892 Repeating Rifle. One major distinguishing characteristic of this rifle is the large, oversized loop on the loading lever. John Wayne had one with a large gold "JW" emblazoned on the wooden stock. Here is a link to a replica of that rifle that was made By Winchester beginning in 1892.
Sand is much heavier than grit. Sand should be used if you're trying to weigh something down.
Grit, or more commonly, bort, is diamond material used for industry, or in the cutting and polishing process of gem-quality diamond stones.