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Definition of Spunges
1. spunge [n] - See also: spunge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spunges
Literary usage of Spunges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Military Dictionary: Or, Explaination of the Several Systems of Discipline by William Duane (1810)
"3 spunges ; 4 loads. ó brings cartridges, runs up, and elevates. 7 runs up and
elevates. i serves vent, traverses, and primes. ..."
2. Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-history, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature by James Anderson (1802)
"Long in the muffled firmament, the rain Belly'd the cloudy spunges of the main.
Belly'd is certainly corrupt. We should read, belied; ..."
3. Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Davies (1774)
"... but the Kain would not come down, and therefore gave the spunges the Lie.
Or perhaps pur Author, who is fond of Metaphors, ..."
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