Lexicographical Neighbors of Smickers
Literary usage of Smickers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nollekens and his times: Comprehending a Life of that Celebrated Sculptor by John Thomas Smith (1828)
"... and so called from the rat-catchers and canine smickers who inhabited it, and
where they cleaned the skins of those unfortunate stray dogs who had ..."
2. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"In the shed the cars are surrounded by the smickers, each provided with a knife,
and a can arranged so as to hook to the upper bar of the Iron framework of ..."
3. The Works of Joel Chandler Harris by Joel Chandler Harris (1920)
"The smickers were divided into two competing gangs, and there was a rivalry as
to which side should reach the rail first. Hence the song. ..."
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