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Definition of Peeries
1. peery [n] - See also: peery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peeries
Literary usage of Peeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oor Ain Folk: Being Memories of Manse Life in the Mearns and a Crack Aboot by James Inglis (1894)
"... Regime — The Meagre Mental Equipment of our Dominie—Contrast between the Old
System and the New—Our School Games and Boyish Toys : ' Bools and peeries'; ..."
2. English and American Tool Builders by Joseph Wickham Roe (1916)
"The peeries were turned with perfect accuracy, and the steel shod, or spinning
pivot, was centered ... They could spin twice as long as the bought peeries. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"The hoges,' a boys' game played with ' peeries' (peg-tops). The victor is entitled
to give a certain number of blows with the spike of his peerie to the ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... the ane round anil poutin' like a kind o' lip I never had ony great fancy tac,
and the tither l DILT, duft-lookin' things like taps and peeries, ..."
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