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Definition of Killers
1. killer [n] - See also: killer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Killers
Literary usage of Killers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"A school of apparently 10 or 12 killers rnu into the shoal around the near rookery
... Another visitation of killers similar to that of 15th instant (p. ..."
2. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"... and the owner punished according to the act of common- council, and that the
dogs be killed by the dog-killers appointed for that purpose. ..."
3. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"I am singing to you killers Soft as a man with a dead child speaks; Hard as a
man in handcuffs, Held where he can not move: Under the sun Are ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"This difficulty limits the chief usefulness of chemicals as weed-killers to the
following cases: (1) When an especially obnoxious weed, as poison ivy, ..."
5. Farm and Garden Rule-book: A Manual of Ready Rules and Reference with by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1911)
"... Chemical Weed-killers or Herbicides The usefulness of chemicals as weed-killers
is largely limited to the following cases ..."
6. The Story of the Thirteen Colonies by Hélène Adeline Guerber (1898)
"THE KING-killers. CROMWELL having died in 1658, the English, most of whom were
... A few of these king-killers, or " reg'i-cides," as they were called, ..."
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