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Definition of Selcraig
1. Noun. Scottish sailor who was put ashore on a deserted island off the coast of Chile for five years (providing the basis for Daniel Defoe's novel about Robinson Crusoe) (1676-1721).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Selcraig
Literary usage of Selcraig
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men of Fife: Of Past and Present Times by Matthew Forster Conolly (1866)
"John Selcraig, younger, being questioned concerning the foregoing tumult, ...
Selcraig came running for her husband John, and desired him to go to his ..."
2. Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1847)
"Agreeably to this citation the parties appeared—the father, the mother, the eldest
son and his wife, and-our hero. On this occasion John Selcraig, the elder ..."
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