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Definition of Fleshers
1. flesher [n] - See also: flesher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleshers
Literary usage of Fleshers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cases Decided in the House of Lords, on Appeal from the Courts of Scotland by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, William Reginald Courtenay Devon, Charles Hope Maclean, Patrick Shaw, James Wilson (1830)
"1828. married Christian Nelson, daughter of a flesher, who had been a member of
the incorporation of fleshers in that city. ..."
2. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh by Edinburgh (Scotland) (1875)
"... act of the council as to the removing of the fleshers from the fleshmarket,
... provost bailies and council, knowing the disobedience of the fleshers in ..."
3. Contracts and Combinations in Restraint of Trade by Albert Martin Kales (1918)
"Glasgow fleshers' Trade Defense Association.2 In that case the butchers at a
foreign cattle auction exchange declared that they would not buy at all unless ..."
4. New Reports of Cases Heard in the House of Lords, on Appeals and Writs of Error by Richard Bligh, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1831)
"JN 1807, the Incorporation of fleshers in Glasgow recorded in their books, a
resolution proposed by the deacon and masters, and adopted by the whole body of ..."
5. Records of Old Aberdeen, MCLVII-[MCMIII] by Aberdeen (Scotland) (1899)
"... represented to the Councell that great inconveniency and danger has happened
to the inhabitants and others by reason of the fleshers killing swine oxen ..."
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