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Definition of Strouds
1. stroud [n] - See also: stroud
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strouds
Literary usage of Strouds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution by New York (State), Charles Zebina Lincoln, William H. Johnson, Ansel Judd Northrup (1894)
"AND That the Payment of the Duty hereby laid on strouds or other Cloaths may not
be Eluded, by cutting Them into Small Pieces, BE it Enacted by the ..."
2. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania: From the Organization to by Pennsylvania Provincial Council (1851)
"We took them from- them, and wo give them to You to return to those white people
who made the Bargain, and desire when the strouds are returned to them they ..."
3. Memoirs, Official and Personal: With Sketches of Travels Among the Northern by Thomas Loraine McKenney (1846)
"strouds are a blue cloth, six quarters wide, with a narrow cord about one inch
from the ... strouds, from six to seven quarters wide, to weigh, per yard, ..."
4. Memoirs, Official and Personal: With Sketches of Travels Among the Northern by Thomas Loraine McKenney (1846)
"strouds, from six to seven quarters wide, to weigh, per yard, from one and half
to one pound and three-quarters. If these goods can be had, please inform me ..."
5. An Abridgment of the Indian Affairs Contained in Four Folio Volumes by New York (State), Peter Wraxall, Charles Howard McIlwain (1915)
"... until (as We suppose) he sends another parcell of strouds by this party of
Indians now in Town & how People can take the said Oath (is surprizing) who ..."
6. Chronicles of Pennsylvania from the English Revolution to the Peace of Aix by Charles Penrose Keith (1917)
"The Six Nations had taken possession of the two strouds brought home by the ...
The strouds were now brought, to be returned to Cresap in repudiation of the ..."
7. The Wilderness Trail: Or, The Ventures and Adventures of the Pennsylvania by Charles Augustus Hanna (1911)
"There has been an account kept of 900 pieces of strouds transported thither in
... "strouds (the staple Indian commodity) this year are sold for ten pounds ..."
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