2. Verb. (third-person singular of carp) ¹
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Definition of Carps
1. carp [v] - See also: carp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carps
Literary usage of Carps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of the Fishes of Guiana by Robert Hermann Schomburgk, William Jardine, Andrew Crichton (1841)
"... OR carps. The reasons which induce us (with our present knowledge of their
... and it seems as necessary to have among the carps some form representing ..."
2. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"He drinketh deep ; and of the battle carps. But soon they part forth, from fond
Cassar, weary : Who sith all drunken, in his vomit, lies, Alone ; and routs ..."
3. A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament: With Reports of Cases by Sir Henry Gwillim, Charles Ellis (1825)
"He has been permitted to retain them, and when he is called upon to pay his money
he carps at the plaintiff's title to the tithes. ..."
4. The Journals of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1919)
"the King is still alive but very feeble. Found the carps diplomatique have been
worried these four days past with the question whether they should drape ..."
5. A Selection of the Geological Memoirs Contained in the Annales Des Mines by Henry Thomas De la Beche (1824)
"... Tin of Piriac (department of the Loire Inférieure), by Messrs JUNKER and
DUFRENOY, Assistants to the Royal Mining carps* (Annales des Mines for 1819. ..."
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