Lexicographical Neighbors of Bittour
Literary usage of Bittour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1900)
"... by pure necessity compelled, On her majestic mary-bones* she kneeled ; Then
to the water's brink she laid her head, And as a bittour bumps within a reed ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"254. bite on the bridle, to be impatient of restraint. Gascoigne, i. 449, l. 25.
bitter, bittour, a bittern. Bitter, Middleton, Triumph of Love, ed. ..."
3. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"bird, also called Ы- fo«r, O. Eng. bittour, botor, Scot, ... And as a bittour
bumps within a reed, "To thet? alone, O lake,'1 she said, " I tell. ..."
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