Lexicographical Neighbors of Piecened
Literary usage of Piecened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"We've z-piecened th' old chancy tay-pot, ... pick up in the road—he was a piecened
and a-patched all over. Th' old man looked like a proper old cadger, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"... they cannot be piecened, it is usually called ' a trap.' The threads are
lengthened by putting others to them. They are then put under the temples, ..."
3. Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery by National Gallery (Great Britain) (1906)
"Originally of a semicircular shape, but subsequently shortened and piecened so
as to form a quadrangular picture. This picture was the lunette of an ..."
4. The Manuscripts of the Earl Cowper, K. G.: Preserved at Melbourne Hall by John Coke, Thomas Coke, Francis Thomas De Grey Cowper Cowper, William Dashwood Fane (1888)
"... here are materials to make a piecened mast and able and sufficient workmen.
Two Dutch and three English ships cast away in this storm. ..."
5. The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway: Including the by George S. Measom (1861)
"... of about three^ eights of an inch thick, and was formerly piecened by children,
ol whom there were generally from two to three for each machine. ..."
6. Walks in Yorkshire: i. in the north west, ii, in the north east by William Stott Banks (1866)
"... but the third horn, which is piecened out like the second, is declared to be
older and we are put into a state of doubt as to their comparative ages. ..."
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