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Definition of Porking
1. pork [v] - See also: pork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Porking
Literary usage of Porking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Career of a Journalist by William Salisbury (1908)
"The papers are full of the daring exploit of young Miss porking in capturing a
... Mr. porking hastily orders his carriage, and, adjured by his wife and ..."
2. A journal or historical account of the life, travels, sufferings, Christian by George Fox (1694)
"... the Lord's power was porking, to lead them into a ministry and testimony to
his ruth; who, through their too much entangling themselves ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1835)
"W. Phillips, esq., of porking, formerly of Little Tower-hill. Lately. At Richmond,
Henry, eldest son of Sir HR Calden, Bart. SUSSEX.—OCI. 6. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"porking- ton 10. Still in common use. (2) An exclamation of amazement. NIAISE.
A simple witless gull. (Fr.) Forby has n%, Vocab. ii. 233. NIAS. ..."
5. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1888)
"It is probable that the aggregate slaughtered in the Western porking establishments,
in commercial packing elsewhere, and by the farmers m all parts of the ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"... according to the taste and fancy of the person porking or trouting, either or
both respectively. Leaving Colebrook, we started for the Dixville Notch. ..."
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