Definition of Towmont

1. towmond [n -S] - See also: towmond

Lexicographical Neighbors of Towmont

towind
towing
towing bitt
towing line
towing path
towing rope
towings
towkay
towkays
towline
towlines
towmon
towmond
towmonds
towmons
towmont (current term)
towmonts
town
town-and-gown
town and gown
town ball
town bicycle
town bicycles
town car
town cars
town clerk
town crier
town criers
town gas
town hall

Literary usage of Towmont

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"... A towmont gude ; On Groses Peregrinations. 1 can haud up my head wi' the best o' the breed, ... towmont ..."

2. Masterpieces of British Literature: Ruskin: Macaulay: Brown: Tennyson by Scuddre, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 (1895)
"... carefully saved cheese ; fell, biting. 97. aft, often ; guid, good. 99. towmont, twelvemonth ; sin' lint was i' the bell, since flax was in the flower. ..."

3. Junior High School Literature by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck (1922)
"... I'm ready for my bed—and oh, lass," he so gallantly added, "I wish I could sleep for a towmont, for there's only ae thing in this warld worth living for ..."

4. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1863)
"Both yachts stood over towards the towmont end, the Fairy Queen appearing to be drawing nway from her opponent, but after passing the ..."

5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"That's just what Mr Jaffray said to Coleridge, when walking in the wud wi' him at Keswick—And yet what does he do a towmont or twa af- ^^ _ _ , . ч i_ ..."

6. 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)
"Meg,' said a Border farmer to his wife, as he undressed to go to bed, after an Abbotsford hunt-dinner, ' I wish I could sleep a towmont. ..."

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