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Definition of Possers
1. posser [n] - See also: posser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Possers
Literary usage of Possers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1902)
"These " possers " or " shower boxes," which vary in number according to the type
of machine (usually six or eight), are metal boxes with perforated bottoms ..."
2. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1879)
"Made one halt in the night for the rearmost Boats to come up, and then proceeded
to possers bay, whare we Arrived at 8 o'clock in the morning of the zoth, ..."
3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1894)
"It does not possers the drastic qualities of the gamboge resin, but it is considered
antiscorbutic by the natives. ..."
4. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1846)
"We have declared that we should immediately proceed to recognition, either if
Spain were to invade the liberty of trade which we now possers, ..."
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