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Definition of Pawing
1. paw [v] - See also: paw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pawing
| pavor nocturnus pavs pawa pawas pawaw pawawed pawawing pawaws pawed pawer | pawers pawful pawfuls pawing (current term) pawk pawkier pawkiest pawkily pawkiness pawkinesses | pawks pawky pawl pawled pawless pawling pawls pawn |
Literary usage of Pawing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"... appears The warrior-horse, his ample chest he rears, His wide red nostrils
smoke, his eye-balls glare, And his fore-hoofs, high pawing, smite the air. ..."
2. William Ellery Channing: A Centennial Memory by Charles Timothy Brooks (1880)
"... when the impatient horses of the fashionable hearers were pawing and stamping
in the street, Dr. Channing, insisting upon the existence and nearness of ..."
3. The New System of Educating Horses, Including Instructions on Feeding by Dennis Magner (1870)
"pawing in tlie Stall. G-et a piece of chain about ten inches in length-—run ...
The same treatment used for preventing pawing may be used ; or ** piece ~of ..."
4. Illustrated Horse-breaking by Matthew Horace Hayes (1908)
"... and striking out in front—1'awing at night—pawing back the litter—Rubbing the
tail—Sleeping standing—Difficult to harness and unharness—Getting the tail ..."
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