Lexicographical Neighbors of Keekers
Literary usage of Keekers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... an overlooker at a pit, whose business it is to examine the coals as they come
out of the mine. keekers, the eyes. A cant term. KEEK-HOLE, a peep-hole. ..."
2. The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and by Charles Knight (1862)
"171 ; defence conducted by DC Launay, 17- ; he capitulates, 173; the prisoners
released, 174 Bath the great resort of pleasure keekers in the time of queen ..."
3. The Life of Alexander Hamilton by John Church Hamilton (1841)
"... and keekers, are sometimes sacrificed to very small intrigues. " Your veterans
in diplomacy and in affairs of state consider us as a kind of militia, ..."
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