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Definition of Dixies
1. dixie [n] - See also: dixie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dixies
Literary usage of Dixies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. True Stories of the Great War: Tales of Adventure--heroic Deeds--exploits by Francis Trevelyan Miller (1917)
"The cook was only five yards away, however, busily marshalling an array
of "dixies" (military camp-kettles) which had been newly filled at the distant ..."
2. True Stories of the Great War: Tales of Adventure--heroic Deeds--exploits by Francis Trevelyan Miller (1917)
"The cook was only five yards away, however, busily marshalling an array
of "dixies" (military camp-kettles) which had been newly filled at the distant ..."
3. "Nothing of Importance,": Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion by John Bernard Pye Adams (1918)
"Then the sergeant-major spilled the contents of the two jars into the five dixies,
and as he did so the ten orderlies, two from each platoon, ..."
4. "Nothing of Importance,": Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion by John Bernard Pye Adams (1918)
"His dug-out was at the corner of Old Kent Road and Park Lane, and there I found
the "Quarter" (Company Sergeant-Major Roberts) waiting with the five dixies ..."
5. Gun Fodder: The Diary of Four Years of War by Arthur Hamilton Gibbs (1919)
"The horses bucked violently and various dixies fell off, ... The dixies were
rescued and re-tied. There was Sandbag Corner to navigate yet, and Snow Corner. ..."
6. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by George Francis Dow (1917)
"... the river called basse riuer being the bound from the salt house to that tree,
and from that tree at dixies marsh || at ye west end 11 the line was run ..."
7. "Over There" with the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett (1918)
"How I loathed those dixies! The more grease you got on your hands and clothes
the more appeared to be left in the dixie! The outside was sooty, ..."
8. First Call: Guide Posts to Berlin by Arthur Guy Empey (1918)
"The rations are placed in oval-shaped iron pots called "dixies." These "dixies"
have two handles, one on each side, through which two wooden stakes can be ..."
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