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Definition of Canings
1. caning [n] - See also: caning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canings
Literary usage of Canings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"looking several tremendous canings at him, walked into the back room or "studio."
"Not a soul in town. I 'aven't touched the hirons all day," replied Mr. ..."
2. Abstracts of Wiltshire Inquisitiones Post Mortem, Returned Into the Court of by Edward Alexander Fry, Great Britain Court of Chancery, George Samuel Fry, Ethel Stokes (1901)
"... in the parish of Bishops canings, which are held of John, Bishop of Salisbury,
as of his manor of Bishops canings, in free and common socage, by fealty, ..."
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