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Definition of Dallops
1. dallop [n] - See also: dallop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dallops
| daliaunce dalis dalk dalks dalle dalles dalliances dallied dallier dalliers | dallies dallop dallops (current term) dallying dalmahoy dalmahoys dalmania dalmatian dalmatians dalmatic | dalmatics dalo dals dalt dalton daltonian |
Literary usage of Dallops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Of barly the longest, and greenest yee find, Leave standing by dallops, ...
99- For dallops, according to Kersey, is " a word used in some places for ..."
2. Salopian Shreds and Patches (1877)
"In Bailey's Dictionary we have, " dallops, patches or corners of grass or ...
Phillips, in his New World of Words, speaks of " dallops" as "a word used in ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"... leaue standing by dallops, till time ye doo bind: Then early in morning (while
deaw is thereon), to making of bands till the deaw be all gon. ..."
4. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"Oí barley the finest and greenest ye find, Leave standing in dallops till time
ye do bind. Tesan. From wheat go and rake out the titters or tine, ..."
5. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes : Authors by Samuel Austin Allibone (1896)
"... Of harley the finest and greenest ye find, Leave standing in dallops till time
ye do bind. TUSSER. From wheat go and rake out the titters or tine, ..."
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