Lexicographical Neighbors of Crogged
Literary usage of Crogged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"A mole. North. CROFT. (1) A meadow near a house ; a small common field ; any
inclosure. / **i. /few. in, (2) A vault. Kent. crogged. Filled. Oran. ..."
2. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"Halliwell gives, " crogged, filled," and assigns it to Oxfordshire. CRAM. To stuff
with stories that have no foundation in truth; in other words, ..."
3. A Gazetteer of Massachusetts: Containing Descriptions of All the Counties by John Hayward (1847)
"Although the general features of the town are rough and crogged, it contains
large tracts of valuable land, which yield the farmer a rich reward for his ..."
4. The Congressional Globe by United States. Congress, George A. Bailey, John Cook Rives, Franklin Rives, Francis Preston Blair (1855)
"Witness the Ion« trains of cars which now sweep, at fe rate-of forty" miles per
hour, along the crogged sides of the Alleghanies—the untiring tramp of ..."
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