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Definition of Mateships
1. mateship [n] - See also: mateship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mateships
Literary usage of Mateships
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1905)
"Their's was in fact one of those firm mateships fostered between men by the
exigencies of life on the early Australian goldfields, when friendships formed ..."
2. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1866)
"Although it is usual in mateships, for the masters to make the division of the
oil when at sea, yet if one of them refuses to deliver what is due from him, ..."
3. The Autobiography and Services of Sir James McGrigor, Bart.,: Late Director by James McGrigor (1861)
"... and hospital mateships, appeared with the degree of MD from the Universities
of Edinburgh, Dublin, and Glasgow; in due time, also, these, ..."
4. Scientific Mysticism: Seven Lectures on Mysticism, the Laws of Nature by Holden Edward Sampson (1916)
"The promiscuousness and the unguided and God-less manner in which marriage is
permitted to be carried out, the countless false-mateships and conjugal ..."