Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The furrow with which a plowman finishes his ridge. Crabb. Also hinting.

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Examples

  • She promised to do his bidding; the next morning she donned the woollen clothes of a devotee and hung around her neck a rosary of beads by the thousand; and, henting in hand a staff and a leather water bottle of Yamani manufacture. —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • She promised to do his bidding; the next morning she donned the woollen clothes of a devotee and hung around her neck a rosary of beads by the thousand; and, henting in hand a staff and a leather water bottle of Yamani manufacture.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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