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Definition of Bread-bin
1. Noun. A container used to keep bread or cake in.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bread-bin
| breachable breached breacher breachers breaches breaching breachy bread bread-bin (current term) bread-line | bread-stick bread-worship bread and circuses bread bag bread bags bread bin bread bins bread board |
Literary usage of Bread-bin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Womb of Half-fogged Mirrors: Notes in Lieu of Communication by Martha Attram (1997)
"I should be in Cyprus - enjoying the privileges of hotel and sun. but sadly - no.
Where's the bread-bin ? I'm cold, even in bed. Maybe I'm dying slowly! ..."
2. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1897)
"... sugar, coffee, etc., and that a bread bin be built near the pantry similar to
the one used on board this ship, the bottom of which is a movable grating, ..."
3. Apospasmatia Sacra, Or A Collection of Posthumous and Orphan Lectures by Lancelot Andrewes (1657)
"... fain have bread, bin. (hall wane ir,bcc,u)fe Ie labours not for it in temporal
things, as riches, honour, preferment, a preat deal will not content men ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"Full is our bread-bin now of white wheat flour, Our casks of red aroma-scented
wine; There's not a trunk nor box, but gold and silver Heave up the ..."
5. The Tyro's Greek and English Lexicon: Or a Compendium in English of the ...by John Jones, Christian Tobias Damm, Friedrich Wilhelm Struz, Johann Friedrich Schleusner, Johann Schweighäuser by John Jones, Christian Tobias Damm, Friedrich Wilhelm Struz, Johann Friedrich Schleusner, Johann Schweighäuser (1825)
"10. 2<»jjT<, or eoan, toi, TO, mustard, sinapi. -.'..', ov, for a«;, God, A. 6.
6. 18. f, bread-bin, Plut. 807. t, ov, water parsley or cress, Theo. 5.124. ..."
6. A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology by Jacob Bryant (1807)
"... Egyptians might not cat bread with " the Hebrew* ; for that is an abomination
unto the Egyptians." —not the eating bread, bin the eating it v,i\h the ..."
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