meaning of synecdochical

1. using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it; "to use `hand for `worker or `ten sail for `ten ships or `steel for `sword is to use a synecdochic figure of ">speech"


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