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Definition of Pingles
1. pingle [v] - See also: pingle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pingles
Literary usage of Pingles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament: With Reports of Cases by Henry Gwillim, Charles Ellis (1825)
"... 1778. called by the name of the pingles. At the southern extremity of the fen
adjoining to Whittlesey Meer, a. cottage called ..."
2. A Collection of the Reports of Cases, the Statutes, and Ecclesiastical Laws by Francis King Eagle, Edward Younge (1826)
"... Beale's Cote, and the pingles, lay within, and were considered as parcel of it.
That Farcet had separate parish and civil officers, riz. churchwardens, ..."
3. Goldoni and the Venice of His Time by Joseph Spencer Kennard (1920)
"Avec les Indiens ils donnaient de petits couteaux et des e'pingles pour de bon or.'
I have every reason to retaliate the argument, and to believe that I am ..."
4. The African Slave Trade, and Its Remedy by Thomas Fowell Buxton (1840)
"CHAPTER V. PRINCIPLES. " True faith, true policy, united run."—POPE. "If you
plant where savages be, do not only entertain them with trifles and pingles, ..."
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