Lexicographical Neighbors of Putcheons
Literary usage of Putcheons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with by Henry Phillips (1823)
"... for making hoops and the larger sorts of baskets, hampers, cradles, bird-cages,
&c. putcheons and weels for catching eels ..."
2. Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with by Henry Phillips (1823)
"... for making hoops and the larger sorts of baskets, hampers, cradles, bird-cages,
&c. putcheons and weels for catching eels 9 ..."
3. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1895)
"... which were used as bait for their eel-baskets, or putcheons. On this particular
morning, our party encountered none of these weird phenomena; but, ..."
4. An Old Shropshire Oak by John Wood Warter (1886)
"Meanwhile the little stream flows on, and many a pike basks in the miller's dam,
and many an eel is caught in his weels or putcheons—local names for ..."
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