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Definition of Abraiding
1. abraid [v] - See also: abraid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abraiding
Literary usage of Abraiding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1898)
"But if the inundation is long continued, the abraiding action of the current
along these central deepest parts where it moves fastest, tends to deepen its ..."
2. Journal by Institution of Electrical Engineers Radio Section (1877)
"If a cable has taken a few days to break asunder, as happens under the action of
a chafing or abraiding motion, the tests, if the cable has previously to ..."
3. The Trail of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1904: A Story of the Great Exploration by Olin Dunbar Wheeler (1904)
"... forbare abraiding" the two men somewhat. But they pushed ahead on the trail
of the Indian, with the United States flag flying, stopped for breakfast, ..."
4. Works by Herbert Spencer (1910)
"But if the inundation is long continued, the abraiding action of the current
along these central deepest parts where it moves fastest, tends to deepen its ..."
5. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1835)
"... a perfectly smooth surface, moving in long vast ridges towards the shore, and
breaking over it with considerable violence, abraiding the line of coast. ..."
6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"Its use necessitates the spreading and abraiding of the head. Indeed, it would
be proof that the metal was unsuitable if this did not happen. ..."
7. Estudios entomológicos y parasitológicos by John Edwin Bakeless, Francis Peloubet Farquhar, David R. Iriarte, Justus Liebig, John Blyth (1863)
"Calling in his flankers, Lewis in his exasperation and disappointment "could not
forbare abraiding them a little for their want of attention and imprudence ..."
8. The Genesee Farmer (1859)
"... connected by discs or quoits of iron which, lying obliquely upon their sides
when in operation, roll around, thus tearing and abraiding the surface of ..."
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