Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoots
Literary usage of Spoots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"... c., Bullens, spoots, N. dry stems of tho kesh or cow- parsnip, or of hemp,
used for candle-lighters. Bur, c. a wheel-stopper. ..."
2. Colonial Records of Pennsylvania by Samuel Hazard (1853)
"... and that such procedure is in other ri-spoots dangerous to the publick
interest« : Whereupon, due deliberation having been had, and the opinion of the ..."
3. Popular Lectures on Science and Art: Delivered in the Principal Cities and by Dionysius Lardner (1849)
"Meteor witnessed and described by M. Peltier.—Conversion of a Storm into a Land
Spool.— M Peltier's Tables of Water-Spouts and Land-spoots. ..."
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