Lexicographical Neighbors of Rokers
Literary usage of Rokers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Sea Fisheries and Fishing Industries on the Thames Estuary by James Murie, Kent and Essex Sea Fisheries Committee (1903)
"in the Barrow Deep one morning, on 28 lines 190 great rokers were hooked, ...
Males from 1 foot broad upwards were spoken of as " Bashaw rokers," a term in ..."
2. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by Richard Burn, Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty (1837)
"All persons who (hall receive, by way of pawn, pledge or ex-Who deemed rokers.
..tí. But the same shall not extend to any person who shall lend N01 person» ..."
3. The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical by Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld (1820)
"... upon a day appointed by these rokers, who had possession of the house, your
poor mother, and your two sisters, and the young 'squire your brother,. they ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1911)
"There was also reasonable cause for the exception as to pawn- >rokers. Their business
can only be carried on by those found by public authority ..."
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