Lexicographical Neighbors of Daggings
Literary usage of Daggings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manuals of Emergency Legislation: War Material Supplies Manual by Great Britain, Charles Archer Cook (1918)
"Notice is hereby given that it is the intention of the Army •Council to take
possession of all daggings, Locks, Brokes and Fallen Wool grown or to be grown ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"... they are regularly at daggers- drawn. daggings [dag-eenz]. The clotted wool
which is clipped off from sheep which have had the scour (qv). See GRIBBLE. ..."
3. Randigal Rhymes and a Glossary of Cornish Words by Joseph Thomas (1895)
"Heavily laden, a large quantity. " daggings of them." Dane. " Red-headed Dane."
A term of contempt. Daps. Likeness, counterpart. ..."
4. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"... they are regularly at daggers- drawn. daggings [dag-eenz]. The clotted wool
which is clipped off from sheep which have had the scour (qv). See GRIBBLE. ..."
5. Report of the Railways Department for the Year Ended 31 March by New Zealand Railways (1905)
"Owner's risk, half rate ... ... В Plaster, fibrous, New Zealand manufacture :
Packed. Owner's risk ... ... A Sheep-daggings . ..."
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