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Definition of Shammies
1. shammy [v] - See also: shammy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shammies
Literary usage of Shammies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary: From by John Dundas Cochrane (1824)
"They now place as much reliance upon the efforts of the priests, as they formerly
did on their shammies, with this difference only, that to the latter they ..."
2. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1822)
"This may be the case with horses' tails—real ones may be -deliberately cat off,
and some celebrated professor's shammies annexed to the beast's back in ..."
3. Lakeland Words: A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases, as Used in by B. Kirkby (1898)
"Ah've seen chaps feit fer love tell ther heeds was like a shammies. LOW—A blaze.
Keep thi fingers oot o' t' low. LOWN—A quiet sheltered place. ..."
4. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1845)
"Sandal open work plain silk shammies. Paris and Troyes. 8. Knotted hose without
seam. Lyons and Barcelona. 9. Round feet in hose. France and Spain. 10. ..."
5. Riding for Ladies: With Hints on the Stable by Power O'Donoghue (1887)
"It is a receptacle intended to hold working implements— such as combs, brushes
of all kinds, sponges, scissors, chamois leathers, or " shammies," as ..."
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