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Definition of Hernshaws
1. hernshaw [n] - See also: hernshaw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hernshaws
Literary usage of Hernshaws
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"... and Spenser calls them hernshaws. Hes-been [cz-been], a term applied to a
worn-out or decrepit ..."
2. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1838)
"Eagles, hernshaws, cranes, ducks great, geese, swans, penguins, crows, shrikes,
ravens, mews, turtle-doves. Many birds of sundry colors ; many other fowls ..."
3. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1872)
"... pair were large cages, containing live bitterns, curlews, hernshaws, godwits, "
and such dainty birds, offered to her by Sylvanus, god of wood fowl. ..."
4. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1881)
"No, they warn't hernshaws ; he knows a hernshaw when he sees one," and no amount
of questioning- can elicit further information but that they were "gurt ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"One of these rambles, for it seemed to be nothing more, brought him out above
the river in the neighbourhood of the hernshaws' section. ..."
6. Shakspere and His Forerunners: Studies in Elizabethan Poetry and Its by Sidney Lanier, Henry Wysham Lanier (1908)
"... three feet long, and two feet wide ; and high in them live bitterns, curlews,
shovelers, hernshaws, godwits, and such like dainty birds, of the presents ..."
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