Lexicographical Neighbors of Dropshot
Literary usage of Dropshot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Geological Society of London by Geological Society of London (1836)
"Oxf. : dropshot, near Thame, in grey sandy limestone, with numerous green particles,
... Oxf.: dropshot, (very large specimens): in dark grey limestone, ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Furnivall, p. xi). dropshot: phr. at dropshot; 'I'll do no more at dropshot' (ie
I'll do no more in the character of an eaves-dropper, or where one can be ..."
3. Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Muniments of Alleyn's College of God's Gift by Dulwich College, George Frederic Warner, Francis B. Bickley (1881)
"... or dropshot,' and for the imposition of a tax of 1o^. upon every fother of
lead taken out of the kingdom ; no date. f. 135. ..."
4. The Standard Cipher Code of the American Railway Association, for the Use of by American Railway Association (1906)
"dropshot Documents niu.st be 46. . Dropsical Documents must. be sent with draft
47 . . Dropstone. . . . Documents must be surrendered to 48. ..."
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