2. Noun. (informal) early shifts, in a job with a shift rotation ¹
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Definition of Earlies
1. early [n] - See also: early
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earlies
Literary usage of Earlies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of by John Sinclair (1814)
"Where the cottage gardens are small, the whole space that can be spared for
potatoes ought to be occupied with earlies. There is still another advantage ..."
2. The Chronicle of a Cornish Garden by Harry Roberts (1901)
"... a sort of deep reddish bronze-yellow ; Bronze Prince; the very dwarf Orange
Child; the pure white Queen of the earlies; and the beautiful red M. Maxime ..."
3. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1876)
"The earlies? Nono that I have tried (and to those these remarks must be held to
apply) possess them in a degree approaching our older sorts. ..."
4. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1874)
"Healthy " Fluke " potatoes planted in contact with diseased " King of earlies"
took the disease badly; the foliage was very dark in the spring, ..."
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