Definition of Bearwards

1. Noun. (plural of bearward) ¹

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Definition of Bearwards

1. bearward [n] - See also: bearward

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bearwards

bears
bears down
bears on
bears out
bears up
bears upon
bears witness
bearship
bearsite
bearskin
bearskins
bearthite
beartrap
beartraps
bearward
bearwards (current term)
bearwood
bearwoods
beast of burden
beast of prey
beastdom
beasted
beasten
beastes
beasthood
beastial
beastiality
beastie

Literary usage of Bearwards

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1841)
"The Masters claimed the right of sending bearwards into the provinces, ... The bearwards, Borne and Bryant, (for more than one man was employed to take ..."

2. Memoirs of Edward Alleyn: Including Some New Particulars Respecting by John Payne Collier (1841)
"The Masters claimed the right of sending bearwards into the provinces, ... The bearwards, Borne and Bryant, (for more than one man was employed to take ..."

3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"5, it provides, that ' all fencers, bearwards, common- players in interludes, and minstrels, not belonging to any baron of this realm, or towards any other ..."

4. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"The Masters claimed the right of sending bearwards into the provinces, ... The bearwards, Borne and Bryant, (for more than one man was employed to take ..."

5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"From among which company our bearwards are not excepted, and just cause: for I have read that they have, either voluntarily or for want of power to master ..."

6. Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists by John Tucker Murray, David Klein, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, William Winter, Rosamond Gilder, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, William Dean Howells, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Allan McAulay, William Randolph Hearst (1910)
"I have given all the entries to bearwards, etc., as well as players to show the new way of grouping these payments in the records. ..."

7. Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed ; with Introductions by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Harrison (1910)
"From among which company our bearwards are not excepted, and just cause: for I have read that they have, either voluntarily or for want of power to master ..."

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