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Definition of Carpers
1. carper [n] - See also: carper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpers
Literary usage of Carpers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1881)
"But it begets a brood of green-eyed carpers. That stab it with their pen !
The carpers fain would frame a plea effectual To prove to all who hear, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"carpers, sb. pi. " Hundreds of men, women, and children, called carpers, are
ready to catch the fish ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1864)
"These carpers are ... to the carpers of Columbus, who told him, after he had
shown them how, it was ver}' easy to stand an egg on end. ..."
4. Mirror for magistrates: in five parts by William Baldwin, Richard Niccols, John Higgins (1815)
"... murderous and bad, But now me thinkes I heare the carpers tell, ... I lease
no toyle, At carpers ..."
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