Lexicographical Neighbors of Backet
Literary usage of Backet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"It is generally called the saut-backet, 3. This seems a dimin. from Teat, ...
A stone at the side of a kitchen-fire, on which the taut-backet rests. ..."
2. The Edinburgh Gazetteer, Or Geographical Dictionary ...: Accompanied by an Atlas (1822)
"... yet so narrow as to allow any sage by means of a backet and ropes. Tb light
is of the revolving kind, end bthi, elevated 200 feet above the sea, ..."
3. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies (1818)
"... that I am not likely, while I have exist- to him now at it« bottom like the
round- ing of a backet-chain orer its top, and if it had been fathomed with ..."
4. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1866)
"Seizing a backet he dipped it over the side and insisted on the terrified man's
taking a goud long swig at it—the result, as every chemist knows, ..."
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