Lexicographical Neighbors of Dwalm
Literary usage of Dwalm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"£1«B/y-homed kye;" short or stumpy-homed cows.' Wb. Gl. dwalm, sb. ... He further
gives dwalm, in exactly our sense, as occurring ' apud ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1892)
"dwalm, a slight illness, a faint fit. ... dwalm-O.FF, to doze off to sleep, to
go off into a faint. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Compare dwalm and following words. TAAS, TAWSE, a broad leather strap, having
one end slit into five " toes " or fingers ; used for smacking children. ..."
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