Marionette

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A jointed puppet manipulated from above by strings or wires attached to its limbs.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A string puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
  • n. The buffel duck.
  • v. To control (somebody) as if they were a puppet; to manipulate.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.
  • n. The buffel duck.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A puppet moved by strings; one of a set of such puppets used to represent characters on a mimic stage.
  • n. The buffie or buffle-headed duck.
  • n. A small complicated arrangement at the end of the batten in a ribbon-loom, for actuating the racks of the shuttles. It is curiously lifelike in its motions, whence the name.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    figure   
    Cross Reference
    manipulator   
    Form
    marionettist   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    puppet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    puppet    puppeteer    motion picture    pantaloon    vaudeville   
     
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