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Definition of Inkles
1. inkle [n] - See also: inkle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inkles
Literary usage of Inkles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Life, Travels and Gospel Labors of Thomas Arnett by Thomas Arnett (1884)
"the course of this week as follows: On the 9th at II inkles Creek in the forenoon,
and one in the afternoon at West Grove ; on the 10th at Greenwood in the ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... but as a collective term for quantities of caddis of different kinds, as
inkles, &c. Ordinary garters were sometimes made of caddis. ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Chapman, II., xvi, 546. And as a falcon frays CADDIS. A kind of ferret, or worsted
lace. They crime to him by the grots ; inkles, ..."
4. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1875)
"... of all the colours i' the rainbow; points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia
can learnedly handle, though they come to him by the gross; inkles, ..."
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