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Definition of Dighting
1. dight [v] - See also: dight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dighting
Literary usage of Dighting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1858)
"10d ; October 1597, to Giles Edge's wife, for dighting and dressing 4 stone 4 Ib.
wool, ... 6d.; to James Hill, for dighting and frising thc same, 7s. ..."
2. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the by Shuttleworth family, John Harland (1858)
"14s. ; for oil to the same, 8s. ; weaving it into blankets, 7s. 6d. ; to James
Hill, for dighting and frising the same, 7s. 6d. ; for lilting [dyeing] 4 ..."
3. The Records of a Scottish Cloth Manufactory at New Mills, Haddingtonshire by William Robert Scott (1905)
"3 : 8 24 „ is 24 : 0 : 0 Women for dighting and picking the wooll. ... 8:0 12 „
is 28:16: 0 For setting and dighting of handles . . .3:8 2 „ is 2:0:0 ..."
4. Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity (1880)
"... bore rule down to the "dighting of the fore-street" in 1637; nor was it much
extended when the third George was approaching the meridian of his reign. ..."
5. Selections from the Household Books of the Lord William Howard of Naworth by William Howard, George Ornsby (1878)
"To James Shepard and And. Creak for threshing and dighting fv bushells and a peck
of wheat, ij8. vjd. ... Brockett's Glossary, sv t dighting is dressing. ..."
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