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- verb Present participle of
sot .
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Examples
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After about 2 ½ hours I managed to get the keys out intact, and to knock the sotting thing into three or four huge chunks, and a bunch of little ones.
Antique Piano deconstruction...garages...and more. deep_bluze 2005
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At first he behaved himself diligently and thereby got much into the favour of his master, but falling into loose company and addicting himself to sotting in alehouses, his once kind and indulgent master, finding him incorrigible, dismissed him from his service, and having given him some small matter by way of encouragement, he set out for London.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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But growing idle, and being always inclined to sotting, he chose rather to go errands, or to do anything rather than work any longer.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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You must sit sotting at the ` George 'till you can't tell your hand from your foot; and then you must come home and blackguard me and the childer, and turn the house out of the windows.
Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson
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A barrel of beer is now broached, pipes are loaded and lighted, and they sit the whole evening, sotting, smoking, and singing songs about the Rhine, liberty, and fatherland, with ear-splitting and interminable choruses of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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This led him to the knowledge of abundance of wicked, disorderly people, whose manners agreeing best with his own, he spent most of his time in sotting with them at their haunts, when by bawling about the streets, he had got just as much as would suffice to sot with.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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Those who continued sotting with beer all day, were often, by not paying, out of credit at the alehouse, and usd to make interest with me to get beer; their light, as they phrased it, being out.
Paras. 51-100 1909
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Those who continued sotting with beer all day, were often, by not paying, out of credit at the alehouse, and us'd to make interest with me to get beer; their light, as they phrased it, being out.
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But, during my absence, he had acquir'd a habit of sotting with brandy; and I found by his own account, and what I heard from others, that he had been drunk every day since his arrival at New York, and behav'd very oddly.
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But, during my absence, he had acquird a habit of sotting with brandy; and I found by his own account, and what I heard from others, that he had been drunk every day since his arrival at New York, and behavd very oddly.
Paras. 51-100 1909
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