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Definition of Thirding
1. a third part [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thirding
Literary usage of Thirding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"Cento!.. Ff. т. 48, t 51. THIRD-FATHER. A great-grandfather. thirding. (1) Doing
a thing the third time, particularly, I think, hoeing turnips. ..."
2. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1868)
"The great division of the county into its three Ridings is without doubt due to
the Northmen. Riding is a corruption of ' thirding '—a third part or ..."
3. The Dark Ages, 476-918 by Charles William Chadwick Oman (1908)
"The system on which the Vandal organised his realm was not the comparatively
merciful ' thirding of the land' that Odoacer and Theodoric introduced into ..."
4. The Dark Ages, 476-918 by Charles William Chadwick Oman (1908)
"The system on which the Vandal organised his realm was not the comparatively
merciful ' thirding of the land' that Odoacer and Theodoric introduced into ..."
5. The Dark Ages, 476-918 by Charles William Chadwick Oman (1903)
"The system on which the Vandal organised his realm was not the comparatively
merciful ' thirding of the land ' that Odoacer and Theodoric introduced into ..."
6. The Dark Ages 476-918 by Charles William Chadwick Oman (1901)
"The system on which the Vandal organised his realm was not the comparatively
merciful ' thirding of the land' that Odoacer and Theodoric introduced into ..."
7. The Scottish Historical Review by Company of Scottish History (1905)
"It is curious to note that this thirding, in a year which contained three threes,
has continued down to the present day, and that a portion of the land is ..."
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