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Definition of Dabsters
1. dabster [n] - See also: dabster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dabsters
Literary usage of Dabsters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1827)
"I have heard of the dabsters, as great rich city brokers ; that is all I can tell
you about them. I have no city connexions, thank God ! ..."
2. An Easy Introduction to the Old Indian Language of the Atlantic Coast by James Waldo Colby (1906)
"C dabsters AT INDIAN. Many of our Indian place-names are so simple to understand
that no red boy of ten would have any doubt about their meaning. ..."
3. Notes of a Tour in Mexico and California by James Hale Bates (1887)
"The Mormon teachers are dabsters at this sort of argument, are well versed in
the Scriptures, and the Gentile must be well grounded and equipped at all ..."
4. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1887)
"... but pushed to absurd limits by certain dabsters who considered that view the
strongest support of the theory of evolution in the inorganic realm. ..."
5. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1858)
"And if this remark be true, what miserable dabsters, what fatal triflers, have
we often allowed to play with the bodies, the minds, the hearts of our ..."
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