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Definition of Meatmen
1. meatman [n] - See also: meatman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meatmen
Literary usage of Meatmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1801)
"... families which is the full of all comforts (o them, and a faring of at lead
twenty p,-r cent, from what it would cod them to buy it from the meatmen or ..."
2. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1847)
"... the Proprietaries, alarmed at the progress of the enemy, or, as Dr. Franklin has
said, " intimidated by the clamor raised against them for their meatmen ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1837)
"... or sweet- meatmen, whose practices are as deadly as) those of the Thugs; the
only differ- en'ce being, that the former poison instead of strangling ..."
4. The Pursuits of Literature: A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues, with Notes by Thomas James Mathias (1801)
"... (mm) worn with classic toil, Complain affixed to meatmen by a modern pampered
boy ? Well then: he has no temptation to be mean. But, from a full purse, ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1802)
"4 Taking grain in the wholesale way of the former, who find it more convenient
to dispose of their crops to one than to many persons, the meatmen deal it ..."
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