Lexicographical Neighbors of Pigsticker
Literary usage of Pigsticker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Company by Carroll Judson Swan (1918)
"The driver was gone perhaps ten minutes: Charlie claimed it was an hour and a
half; and all this time the steel pigsticker was resting on his rotund stomach ..."
2. My Company by Carroll Judson Swan (1918)
"The driver was gone perhaps ten minutes: Charlie claimed it was an hour and a
half; and all this time the steel pigsticker was resting on his rotund stomach ..."
3. Love in Our Village by Orme Angus (1902)
"pigsticker Jo was the man for the emergency. " Run, one ov 'ee, vor Mrs. Minchen,
... The pigsticker received a goodly portion of it, which, strange to say, ..."
4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... pigsticker, jacker, deerstalker, ferreter, falconer. fjF Cross références:
see Note. humorous: funny. ..."
5. The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft, William Archibald Dunning (1908)
"... (the pigsticker), was a most remarkable and formidable weapon. Why it was so
called I do not remember. ..."
6. The Adventures of François, foundling, thief, juggler, and fencing-master by Silas Weir Mitchell (1899)
"He swears thou art coward enough to use the guillotine to settle a quarrel, and
that thou dost fence like a pigsticker." Amar, le farouche, swore an oath ..."
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