Lexicographical Neighbors of Fribs
Literary usage of Fribs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sheep Husbandry: With an Account of the Different Breeds, and General by Henry Stephens Randall (1856)
"He then picks up the "fribs" (small loose locks) left on the floor, which are
deposited ... A small boy or two are handy to pick up fribs, sweep, &c. straw, ..."
2. Cost Finding in Woolen and Worsted Mills by Samuel Sherman Dale (1918)
"When sorted; there were- besides the 3/ body sort, burry valued at 12 cents,
fribs at 12 cents, ... $8.40 fribs, 32 Ibs. 12 cts. ..."
3. Tariff Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of by Committee on Ways and Means, United States, Congress, House (1908)
"Medium half-blood territory wool (American). Take 100 pounds: Taking off string,
dung locks, fribs, and refuse (4 per cent) leaves 90 pounds of sorted wool ..."
4. Ergänzungsbände zur dritten Auflage des Handbuchs der organischen Chemie by Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1906)
"... fribs, B. 31, 763). — Krystalle aus Alkohol. Schmelzpunkt: 149,5—150°.
Fast unlöslich in Aether und Ligro'iu, löslich in Benzol und Eisessig, ..."
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