Lexicographical Neighbors of Gippers
Literary usage of Gippers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1857)
"The gippers cut their throats, take out the guts, and fling the full herrings
into one basket, and the shotten [spawned or roe-less] into another; ..."
2. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the by Shuttleworth family, John Harland (1857)
"The gippers cut their throats, take out the guts, and fling the full herrings
into one basket, and the shotten [spawned or roe-less] into another; ..."
3. View of the British Empire, More Especially Scotland: With Some Proposals by John Knox (1789)
"... Nine gippers which cut their throats, and takes out the gilts, and fling the
full herrings into one ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"lu ii all the nets are thus unloaded, one fills the gippers baskets. The gippers
cut their throats, take out their guts, and fling out the full herrings ..."
5. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"When all the nets are thus unloaded, one fills the gippers baskets. The gippers
cut their throats, take out their guts, and fling out the full herrings into ..."
6. The Rev. J.W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life by Jermain Wesley Loguen, Elymas Payson Rogers (1859)
"By gippers I—I'll rout him," said Isaac* " Poor folks have no business here.
There comes Massa James, Massa Charles, &cs—I'll set them on to him— they will ..."
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