Definition of Grosets

1. groset [n] - See also: groset

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grosets

gropest
gropeth
groping
gropingly
gropings
gros point
grosbeak
grosbeaks
groschen
groschens
groser
grosers
grosert
groserts
groset
grosets (current term)
grosgrain
grosgrains
gross
gross(a)
gross-domestic-product
gross anatomy
gross domestic product
gross domestic products
gross estate
gross haematuria
gross heating value
gross income
gross incomes
gross lesion

Literary usage of Grosets

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

1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"To destroy what ought to be preserved ; as, u The weans are gaun tef the grosets," the children are destroying the gooseberries. ..."

2. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"To destroy what ought to be preserved ; as, ''The weans are gaun wi' the grosets."the children are destroying the gooseberries, Roxburgh. Loth. ..."

3. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1882)
"This was when Armour opened the gate at the foot of the garden and admitted from the meadow a band of bairns to run rampant amongst the grosets, rasps, ..."

4. The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow by Dougal Graham (1883)
"... and our John's is little better, for an' let them alane but ae eight days, they'll grow as grit as grosets. And here I sold a bone comb and a napkin, ..."

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