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Definition of Smoor
1. v. t. To suffocate or smother.
Definition of Smoor
1. to smother [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: smother
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoor
Literary usage of Smoor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael, James Carmichael Watson, Angus Matheson (1900)
"... BLESSING I WILL smoor the hearth As Mary would smoor, The encompassment of
Bride and of Mary, On the fire and on the floor, And on the household all. ..."
2. Belgium by James Emerson Tennent (1841)
"... Lys—Denys— Distillation in Belgium—AGRICULTURE IN FLANDERS —A Flemish
farm—Anecdote of Chaptal and Napoleon —Trade in manure—The smoor-Hoop—Rotation of ..."
3. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"Brand's Pop. Antiq. ii. 289. Thiele also, and Grundtvig, frequently mention the
same or a like remedy for witchery or bewilderment. smoor ..."
4. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"S. Duncan Gray \ Whare, in the snaw, the chapman smoor'd ; Тат о' ... The death
o' devils, smoor'd wi' brimstone reek : The Brigs of Ayr. Smooth. ..."
5. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"I'll smoor some of them."—John Webster, The White Devil, ed. ... It was formerly
no uncommon thing to smoor pears by putting them between a bed and a ..."
6. The Complete Works of Robert Burns (self-interpreting) by Robert Burns (1886)
"smoor, to smother; smoor'd, Smiddy, smithy. smothered. The death o' devils,
smoor'd wi' brunstane reek. ..."
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