Lexicographical Neighbors of Peggings
Literary usage of Peggings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"What we call peggings, being composed of those corals that were swept off the
... What we in Hertfordshire call peggings . . . being what comes from the ..."
2. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1879)
"What we call peggings, being composed of those corals that were swept off the
heap of wheat after throwing.'—Modern Husbandman, Vi. iii. 60. ..."
3. The Modern Husbandman, Or, The Practice of Farming by William Ellis (1744)
"... or peggings, has a Mixture pf the Seeds of Weeds, or Pepper or Smutty-Wheat,
it is not fit to be carried to Market, with the better Sort ; no, ..."
4. Old Country and Farming Words: Gleaned from Agricultural Books by James Britten (1880)
""What we call peggings, being composed of those corals that were swept off the
heap of wheat after throwing.'—Modern Husbandman, VI. iii. 60. ..."
5. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"peggings. ' What wo call lagging*, being composed of those corals that were swept
... What we in Hertfordshire call peggings . . . being what comes from the ..."
6. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1883)
"I am still blowing. I shall blow on till ' pegged out.' I have seen a good many
peggings-out in my time—we always call it' pegging out' at ..."
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