Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Worn bare; naked: as, “the bare-worn common,”
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Examples
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When the sun rose, it found him at full length on the bare-worn earth at the foot of the tree.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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-- Old starved mother Earth's bare-worn ribs and joints peeping out through every field and down; and on three sides of us, the sullen thunder of the unseen surge.
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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Those bare-worn walks, that lofty thund'ring hall,
The Borough George Crabbe 1793
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Those bare-worn walks, that lofty thund'ring hall,
The Borough George Crabbe 1793
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Those bare-worn walks, that lofty thund'ring hall,
The Borough George Crabbe 1793
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Why is the common itself so bare-worn, and cropped so differently from the adjoining inclosures? ...
Bill Totten's Weblog 2008
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