Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantraps
Literary usage of Cantraps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"... us now to play his round 0' cantraps, tricks, an' juggles : An11 by the ingle
cosie sit, ..."
2. Sir Walter Scott: The Story of His Life by Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1871)
"Why, Mr. Chantrey, no witch of old ever performed such cantraps with clay as this!"
After Scott's baronetcy was officially announced, — and a good round sum ..."
3. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1892)
"11 Where like a conjuror he'd sit, His black airt at some cantraps tryin'." T.
Wilson, Tkt Pitman's Pay, 1827, pt. ii., v, 46. CANTY, lively, cheerful ..."
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