Lexicographical Neighbors of Creeing
Literary usage of Creeing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Council of Safety (Conn.). (1874)
"creeing said deed to be void, shall be repealed, set aside and reversed, and the
same is hereby repealed, set aside, reversed and made void. ..."
2. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"Then it is put in a pan over the fire to undergo the " creeing " or seething
process, by which means the grain softens and increases in bulk. ..."
3. A Glossary of North Country Words, with Their Etymology, and Affinity to by John Trotter Brockett, William Edward Brockett (1846)
"creeing-TROUGH, culled also a knocking trough. A large stone mortar used for ...
These creeing troughs are still to be seen at the doors of farm houses, ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"KNOCKIN-MELL, a mallet formerly in general use for beating the hulls off barley.
KNOCKIN-TROW, a stone trough, or mortar, used in creeing or hulling barley. ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1849)
"... in a breach of securing a portion of the estate which had been left for 1 'in
de- some years outstanding in the hands of the Defendant creeing relict ..."
6. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Council of Safety (Conn.). (1874)
"creeing said deed to be void, shall be repealed, set aside and reversed, and the
same is hereby repealed, set aside, reversed and made void. ..."
7. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"Then it is put in a pan over the fire to undergo the " creeing " or seething
process, by which means the grain softens and increases in bulk. ..."
8. A Glossary of North Country Words, with Their Etymology, and Affinity to by John Trotter Brockett, William Edward Brockett (1846)
"creeing-TROUGH, culled also a knocking trough. A large stone mortar used for ...
These creeing troughs are still to be seen at the doors of farm houses, ..."
9. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"KNOCKIN-MELL, a mallet formerly in general use for beating the hulls off barley.
KNOCKIN-TROW, a stone trough, or mortar, used in creeing or hulling barley. ..."
10. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1849)
"... in a breach of securing a portion of the estate which had been left for 1 'in
de- some years outstanding in the hands of the Defendant creeing relict ..."
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