Lexicographical Neighbors of Abatures
Literary usage of Abatures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"20. abatures, the traces left by a stag in the underwood through which he has passed. ..."
2. Turbervile's Booke of Hunting, 1576 by George Turberville (1908)
"... a Harte whiche hath a long foote hath a greater bodie than they whiche are
round footed. Of the iudgement of the abatures and beating downe of the lowe ..."
3. A German and English Dictionary by Karl. Breul (1906)
"step (before a door)\ grass trodden down by deer, abatures, foiling ; feinen —
nehmen, to withdraw, to retire (obs,). ..."
4. An universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1724)
"LT abatures, [among Hunters] Foil- Ing, the Sprigs or Grafs that a Stag throws down in ..."
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