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Definition of Trugs
1. trug [n] - See also: trug
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trugs
Literary usage of Trugs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Under Five Reigns by Dorothy Nevill (1910)
"The process of lading was carried out by the use of Sussex " trugs," which are
peculiarly ... The inventor of Sussex trugs, at least in their present form, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"The saying is common about WILMSLOW and ALDERLEY, and is said to have originated
thus: trugs i'th' Hole and Broken Cross both lie between Alderley and ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester by Robert Holland (1886)
"The saying is common about WILMSLOW and ALDERLEY, and is said to have originated
thus: trugs i'th' Hole and Broken Cross both lie between Alderley and ..."
4. The Minor Elizabethan Drama by Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville Dorset, George Peele, Thomas Kyd, Nicholas Udall, John Lyly, Robert Greene (1920)
"... Then rides he straight to London; there, forsooth, 500 And when he's weary
with his trugs at home, He revels it among such filthy ones ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"... to bo rich and pretty, too—in a way," said Zaidee ; " only not for one's own
self." '"She would not be a queen, that would ehe not. Für all the trugs in ..."
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