Lexicographical Neighbors of Mossers
Literary usage of Mossers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scotland and the Protectorate: Letters and Papers Relating to the Military by Charles Harding Firth (1899)
"Whereas the mossers and vagabonds in the borders between England and Scotland
could not continue these depredations and evill ..."
2. ... [County Reports and Maps]: Preston County by Ray Vernon Hennen, William Armstrong Price, W. J. Latimer (1914)
"... with difficulty by an old road crossing the mountain from Eli mossers to ...
1 mile west of Sommers mossers, and % mile southwest of county road from ..."
3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1867)
"But there arc ledges here, where the muscle attaches to the plant, that aro wholly
abandoned by the mossers. Indeed, tho range of tho clean-growing Chondrus ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1870)
"The mossers begin the "pull" of moss late on the spring tide of the full moon
... This practice is probably owing to the restlessness of those mossers who, ..."
5. The Spottiswoode Miscellany: A Collection of Original Papers and Tracts by James Maidment (1845)
"The next morning, by break of day, a Lieutenant and nine mossers came to the
towns end, upon whom our sentinel fired, and they presently betook themselves ..."
6. The Old Coast Road from Boston to Plymouth by Agnes Rothery (1920)
"The mossers work from dories, gathering with long-handled rakes the seaweed ...
It is a pretty sight, and the neatness and dispatch of the mossers make the ..."
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