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Definition of Grannams
1. grannam [n] - See also: grannam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grannams
Literary usage of Grannams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby by Walter Savage Landor (1891)
"I. " 'A wonderful story, my lasses and lads, Peradventure you 've heard from your
grannams or dads, Of a merman that came every night to woo The spinster of ..."
2. Publications by Parish Register Society, London, London Parish Register Society, Florida State Historical Society, Deland, Deland Florida State Historical Society, Reparations Commission, North Carolina Historical Commission, Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Yorkshire (1905)
"Georg sonne to John grannams. 31. Elizabeth Smith. Novr 1. William Best. 2. ...
John grannams. Dec. 2. Leah daughter to Robert Brooks. 5. ..."
3. A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and by Edward Fitzgibbon (1847)
"... then you will find the browns come on, which you must use, as the fish will
not touch the grannams as long as the brown flies continue. ..."
4. Rambles and Recollections of a Fly-fisher: With an Appendix, Containing by William Cartwright (1854)
"... entirely of "grannams. ... faw this than I put on, not one only, but two "grannams"
with a ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"For my distracted mind, What comfort can I find; O best of grannams! thou art
dead and gone, And I am left behind to weep and moan, To sing thy dirge in sad ..."
6. The Poetical Works of William Cowper by William Cowper, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1853)
"I know Dot what impressions time may have made upon your person, for while his
claws (as our grannams called them) strike deep furrows in some faces, ..."
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