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Definition of Trouncers
1. trouncer [n] - See also: trouncer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trouncers
Literary usage of Trouncers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twice-born Men: A Clinic in Regeneration; a Footnote in Narrative to by Harold Begbie (1909)
"The men are thieves, begging-letter writers, pickpockets, bookmaker's touts,
totters (rag and bone men), and trouncers (men paid by costermongers to shout ..."
2. An History of Marine Architecture: Including an Enlarged and Progressive by John Charnock (1801)
"This way a seaman captain breeds up more seamen from being landmen, trouncers,
and boyes, than the casualty of fights, drowning, sickness, &c. destroys. ..."
3. Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London by Edward Burt, Robert Jamieson, Walter Scott (1822)
"Of the trouncers, it is remarked every where, that they have wonderful success
in cutting out work for themselves; the more they do, the more they have to ..."
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