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Definition of Sheening
1. sheen [v] - See also: sheen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheening
Literary usage of Sheening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Highways and Byways in Hertfordshire by Herbert Winckworth Tompkins (1902)
"He tells me that he has done much " sheening " (ie tending the threshing machine)
in his ... Sometimes, when I'm sheening I get three an' a tanner a day, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1821)
"The radix of sheen has produced no verb from which the participle sheening may
be derived ; and what Mr. H. would denote by scarlet wood- ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1821)
"The radix of sheen has produced no verb from which the participle sheening may
be derived ; and what Mr. H. would denote by scarlet mead- berries, ..."
4. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"... and my stock sawing my jaws off, and my accoutrements sheening like the seven
stars! Yes, neighbors, I was a pretty sight in my soldiering days. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"sheening. Thrashing by machinery (Wild Life, ch. vi).—NW Sheep. See Agric.
of Wilts, p. 260 ; also quotation below. ' In the article of sheep what strange ..."
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