Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyoner
Literary usage of Pyoner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Records: The Burgh Accounts by Edinburgh (Scotland). (1899)
"... and for this purpose to ane pyoner callit Maxwell, ... x" Item, ane uther
pyoner callit ..."
2. Kirkwall in the Orkneys by Buckham Hugh Hossack (1900)
"The pyoner was the professional street-cleaner at the service of any one who chose to
... To show that there was a livelihood to be made by the pyoner ..."
3. Substance of a Report on the Laws and Jurisdiction of the Stannaries in Cornwall by George Harrison (1835)
"... or pyoner, for whose ease the Charters were first granted, ... pyoner, or
tinner, is not to sue or be sued out of the Courts of the Stannary, ..."
4. The Western Antiquary by William Henry Kearley Wright (1893)
"... or pyoner, for whose ease the Charters were first granted, ... pyoner, or
tinner, is not to sue or be sued out of the Courts of the Stannary, ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"This may have been merely an E. modification, as the whole word appears to be F.
Richardson quotes the spelling pyoner from Berners' tr. of Froissart, ..."
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