Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyonings
Literary usage of Pyonings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"PYE. See PIE. See By COCK AND PYE. PYNE. See PINB. pyonings, a. Works of pioneer»;
military works of strength. ..."
2. The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1916)
"10: " with painful pyonings From sea to sea he heaped a mighty mound." Twilled may
be connected with the French touiller, to begrime or besmear, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"pyonings. Works of pioneers; military works of strength. Spenser. PYRAMIDES.
Spires of churches. PYTE. Mercy ; pity. (. ..."
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