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Definition of Attercops
1. attercop [n] - See also: attercop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attercops
Literary usage of Attercops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. De Quincey's Editorship of The Westmorland Gazette: With Selections from His by Charles Pollitt, William Wordsworth (1890)
"Master," said a Cumberland girl to me, " Is I to sweep the attercops off them
... By attercops (as I need scarcely tell your readers), she meant cobwebs, ..."
2. The Acts of the High Commission Court Within the Diocese of Durham by William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, England and Wales Court of High Commission (1858)
"Ap. 28. The messinger of the court undertook his appearance in prox. THOMAS HALL
of attercops. Adultery. 1635. June 25. Attachment. July 30. ..."
3. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"This word is not obsolete; see Dr. Johnson. ATS, Who is, which is ; " that ats
naught." ie that which is naught, or the devil. attercops, Spider webs. ..."
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