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Definition of Smotherers
1. smotherer [n] - See also: smotherer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smotherers
Literary usage of Smotherers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1892)
"... very fact that there is not sufficient food for smotherers. There are a few
wet savannahs where the soil under water is nothing but pipe-clay or sand. ..."
2. Timehri: Being the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society (1892)
"... very fact that there is not sufficient food for smotherers. There are a few
wet savannahs where the soil under water is nothing but pipe-clay or sand. ..."
3. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1899)
"... four men from each seaman division are detailed as smotherers and two as
axemen; and others to be ready to cover hatches if ordered. ..."
4. International Perspective in Criticism: Goethe, Grillparzer, Sainte-Beuve by Gustav Pollak (1914)
"Did not the plague, brooded and hatched in those smotherers of fresh air, the
slits that thorough- fared the older town, give us the Decameron? ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1872)
"It is not a little strange, however, to find that while the " misfortunes " of
maidservants were so heavily punished, the smotherers (or " snoozers " as ..."
6. International Perspective in Criticism: Goethe, Grillparzer, Sainte-Beuve by Gustav Pollak (1914)
"Did not the plague, brooded and hatched in those smotherers of fresh air, the
slits that thorough- fared the older town, give us the Decameron? ..."
7. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"... old- fashioned bee-smotherers were too busy talking politics to care for aught
else, the Death's Head created great ravages among our stores. ..."
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