Lexicographical Neighbors of Clawers
Literary usage of Clawers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... and clawers: Nyen handles the pick like Bob Cranky." Selkirk, Bob Cranky's 'Size
Sunday, ..."
2. Dewitt Miller: A Biographical Sketch by Leon Henry Vincent (1912)
"... of clapper-clawers, misrepresenting 'the character of my strictures, and,
fathering 'on me, with frontless mendacity, the most 'preposterous principles, ..."
3. The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond (1894)
"But even the triumphant hind-clawers have to suffer defeat in their turn. There is
born among them one who can stick his tail, as well as his claws, ..."
4. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the by Frederick William Fairholt (1846)
"... of the courtiers of the latter years of Edward I., and that the servants
followed their masters' example. " Now are horse-clawers* clothed in pride ..."
5. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"... -clawers, or dish-clash, the ' ho says ' and ' she says ' of the neighbourhood. ..."
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