Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rent-day.
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Examples
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I have my receipts, paid down to the last gale-day. '
Muslin 1892
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'the cis-Brusnaites,' as they may be termed, demeaned themselves to the condition of tenants in so far as to acknowledge the obligation of rent, though the oldest inhabitant vowed he had never seen a receipt in his life, nor had the very least conception of a gale-day.
Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839
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