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Definition of Baldricks
1. baldrick [n] - See also: baldrick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baldricks
Literary usage of Baldricks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries. With by Charles Wentworth Dilke (1890)
"... surpassed in glittering pomp the caps and baldricks of these Scindée chieftains ;
neither could anything be stranger than their dress. ..."
2. The Bells of England by John James Raven (1907)
"... at their departure 096 For i cwt. of iron For making staples and hasps from
it 036 For two horse-hides bought for making baldricks therefrom For making ..."
3. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1905)
"baldricks are the leathern bands to fasten the clappers on to the bells. 8 This
gathering of the worshipful of the parishioners is the germ of what we now ..."
4. Publications by Hampshire Record Society, Winchester, Winchester Hampshire Record Society, American peace society, Algernon Sidney Crapsey, Ernest Howard Crosby, W. Evans Darby, John Hyde De Forest, Charles Edward Jefferson, Augustine Jones, Mrs. L. J. Mead, J. H. Ral (1889)
"... 8d. ; and paid to William Lomer for repairing the baldricks (of the bells)
for the year, 1 "]d. ; paid for repairing the lead over the building called ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"... of suspending the clapper inside the bell, both of which had loops or eyes to
receive it ; from its continual wear, new baldricks were often required. ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"... and flame-coloured petersham, of viol doublets and costly baldricks, of scores
of garters with theii bunches of ribbons of endless lace ..."
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