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(pl. noun) - (1) A bold and gruesome metaphor to describe what can only be carried by extreme measures, and to obtain which one might have to fight to the death.
--John Farmer's Americanisms Old and New, 1889
(2) A person buried for some time is said to have taken a ground-sweat.
--John Nall's Glossary of the Dialect of East Anglia, 1866
January 16, 2018