Definition of Filchings

1. filching [n] - See also: filching

Lexicographical Neighbors of Filchings

filature
filatures
filazer
filazers
filberd
filberds
filbert
filberts
filch
filched
filcher
filchers
filches
filching
filchingly
filchings (current term)
file
file-card
file-drawer problem
file-drawer problems
file allocation table
file allocation tables
file away
file cabinet
file cabinets
file card
file clerk
file down
file extension
file extensions

Literary usage of Filchings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"... in the eyes of the town, and insisting on going with her to pay some call where she distributed her small filchings from her own share of sweet things. ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1870)
"... and as the island abounds in grottoes and artificial hiding-places, these were, in consequence of their filchings, constantly in request. ..."

3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"Here we see able management, brilliant enterprise, speculative ventures, shrewd pickings,dishonest filchings. A great continent was opened, an unexampled ..."

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