Lexicographical Neighbors of Towsers
Literary usage of Towsers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mattapoisett and Old Rochester, Massachusetts: Being a History of These by Mary Hall Leonard (1907)
"... to Rock Bridge course E. 2° S., to Cedar Swamp, across the swamp to upland,
to the Boat Rock road, to the Bear Swamp, across the Swamp to towsers Neck, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"... towsers'). Formerly so, but now played differently. They just hit, and count
that one, and so follow on. Fon. prep. For. In certain cases and by certain ..."
3. Maryland Historical Magazine by Maryland Historical Society (1913)
"To begin at the mouth of towsers Branch and so up the head thereof thence to the
head of the Indian picture branch and down the same to the mouth thereof ..."
4. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"Next door a spruce old maiden Kept fifty spanking mousers, Who all the day were
raging At puppies and big towsers ; The cats, when tir'd of fighting, ..."
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