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Definition of Menders
1. mender [n] - See also: mender
Lexicographical Neighbors of Menders
Literary usage of Menders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"Father's servants, father having in the garden told me bad stories of my wife's
ill words, 14s.; one that helped at the horses, Is.; menders of the highway, ..."
2. Annual Report of the Governor of Puerto Rico by Puerto Rico Governor (1918)
"The road menders attend to a considerable part of such work as is not urgent ...
Their time thus spent appears charged under the item "Iload menders' work. ..."
3. The Army Behind the Army by Edward Alexander Powell (1919)
"menders OF MEN BENEATH the crest of the British Royal Artillery appears the
word '' Ubique''—'' Everywhere." It is a motto which might more fittingly be ..."
4. Out-doors at Idlewild; Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1855)
"... by Telegraph-menders, &c., &c. September 16,1854. THE lungs of ten thousand
trees, invalids every one, are suffering from the drought, in the woods of ..."
5. Sir David Wilkie, R. A. by William Bayne (1903)
"The Iron Duke commissions "The Chelsea Pensioners"—" The China menders" — " The
Reading of a Will"— Professor Holmberg on "The Reading of a Will"—Maiden ..."
6. The Iron Age Directory (1904)
"menders. Steel Tape— Eyelet Tool Co.. Boston. Mass. L. & R. Wister & Co..
Bullitt Bldg.. Philadelphia. Pa. Philadelphia. Pa. Mats and Mattings. ..."
7. The Political State of Italy by Theodore Lyman (1820)
"... of fruit and vegetables—pay 420 per cent. a year for their capital— third
indigent class, are shoemakers, &c.—fourth, menders of old clothes, &c. ..."
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