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Definition of Duffels
1. duffel [n] - See also: duffel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duffels
Literary usage of Duffels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Documentary History of the State of New-York: Arranged Under Direction by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Secretary's Office (1849)
"10s in duffels 1- Jacob Paers of Rye 9s in mony j- Richard Marten 9s in mony &
10s in duffels — -|- Richard Walters of Rye 9s in mony & 10s in duffels ..."
2. Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674 by New York (State)., Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1868)
"ORDINANCE Of the Director and Council of New Netherland, fixing the price of
duffels. Passed 22 September, 1639. [NT Col. MSS. IV. BO. ..."
3. The History of the Shoddy-trade: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Position by Samuel Jubb (1860)
"... in order that the uninitiated reader may understand in some measure the nature
and uses of the goods. First, duffels—this cloth is generally made stout, ..."
4. pennsylvania archives by Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth (1878)
"We would necessarily require a few pieces of duffels for the purchase of land,
for without having them, and they are not to be had here from anybody, ..."
5. Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts: Being the Letters of Kiliaen Van by New York State Library, Kiliaen van Rensselaer, Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer, Nicolaas de Roever, Susan De Lancey Van Rennselaer Strong (1908)
"I should like to know when the duffels will be ready. ... The other duffels,
those from Campen, are finished and I hope everything will be ready, ..."
6. History of New Netherland by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1855)
"looked in, and returned back, while he well knew that there were duffels there.
... Have you any duffels ? Put them away in your cellar, which I shall not ..."
7. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1881)
"Whereupon they answered, Come, give us a piece of duffels ; we shall afterwards
go with it and see whether we shall not be able to recover all the prisoners ..."
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