Lexicographical Neighbors of Rizzers
Literary usage of Rizzers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"*rizzers. Hurdle stakes [MCHB]. *Roaches. Sweets [BN 72]. Road. To force or jostle
one off the road by riding or driving against him. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"( Oysters—crabs—rizzers—Welsh rabbit—pint of porter— ( three jugs of toddy.
By one o'clock the article is finished, perhaps a leading one, and given to the ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"... are parts of sticks or poles, cither whole or split, placed upright in forming
walls, and supported by rizzers (qv) for receiving the clay daubing. ..."
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