Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Rent-day.

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Examples

  • I have my receipts, paid down to the last gale-day. '

    Muslin 1892

  • '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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