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Definition of Nooser
1. one that nooses [n -S] - See also: nooses
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nooser
Literary usage of Nooser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The forest, the jungle, and the prairie; or, Scenes with the trapper and the by Alfred Elliott (1868)
"The nooser this time secured the rope over the brute's hind leg, and then, ...
Now came up the other decoy, and, protected by the trio, the nooser fastened ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"Each of the decoys bore on his back a mahout and a nooser, the latter armed ...
for a nooser to drop off behind and slip the loop around his right hind leg. ..."
3. Ceylon in 1884: The Leading Crown Colony of the British Empire, with an by John Ferguson (1884)
"A third, even larger and more powerful, in charge of an exceedingly daring and
successful nooser known as " the breeches," from his wearing white ..."
4. The Selangor Journal: Jottings Past and Present (1807)
"They commenced to walk along very slowly, and almost imperceptibly forced their
charge along with them, the nooser dodging behind the trio with the loop ..."
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