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Definition of Longers
1. longer [n] - See also: longer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Longers
Literary usage of Longers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1869)
"... whether the longers live to see the fruition of their desires, or leave this
world before that comes to pass. Even in those whose treasure is not here, ..."
2. On the Stowage of Ships and Their Cargoes: With Information Regarding by Robert White Stevens (1871)
"... and along the bilges lay stout longers, to enable blubber from a bursted cask
to get to the pump-well. 540 Dunnage generally consists of boughs of the ..."
3. With Grenfell on the Labrador by Fullerton Leonard Waldo (1920)
"The scaffolding is made of poles called longers, and it is suggested that these "
longers " are the ..."
4. Newfoundland and Its Missionaries: In Two Parts. To which is Added a by William Wilson (1866)
"Upon these posts are laid the longers, which are slight poles at a few inches'
distance from each other, and these longers are covered with spruce boughs, ..."
5. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1905)
"Wiesb., 1891, pp. :6g. Pathologie und Therapie der Neurasthenie und Hysterie.
ib., 1894, pp. 744. (With bibliogr.) longers- ..."
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