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Definition of Hodden
1. a coarse cloth [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hodden
Literary usage of Hodden
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"... held down and beaten," ie, held in bondage and ill-used ; from hodden, preterite
of hold, and dung, the preterite of ding, to beat or strike. (See DING. ..."
2. An Exposition of the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends, in Some of by Thomas Evans (1848)
"RICHARD hodden. The following quotation is from a work, entitled " The one good
way of God," &c., written by Richard hodden, viz;— " In the next place, ..."
3. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"him, but which he had only worn as some player on the stage might appropriate
either the black velvet of Hamlet or the hodden- grey of the gravedigger, ..."
4. The Cambridge, Ely and King's Lynn Road: The Great Fenland Highway by Charles George Harper (1902)
"... for it without avail, although the Hay- 0 0 wards, the Cartwrights, and the |
Tw, TT Cowards are prominent enough. "J" Ia becket or a hodden spade. ..."
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