thirteenth

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I remembered the story about the feller that cal'lated his chickens wouldn't tell any different, so he fed 'em sawdust instead of corn-meal, and by-and-bye a settin' of eggs hatched out--twelve of the chickens had wooden legs and the thirteenth was a woodpecker.

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  1. noun The ordinal number matching the number 13 in a series.
  2. noun One of 13 equal parts.

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  1. Altered to suit the form of thirteen; from Middle English threttethe, also (after Icelandic) threttende, from Anglo-Saxon threóteótha = OFries. thredtinda = Dutch dertiende = Old High German drittezēndo, Middle High German dritzehende, drīzehende, German dreizehnte = Icelandic threttandi =Swedish trettonde = Danish trettende = Gothic (Moesogothic) *thridjataihunda; as thirteen + -th.
 

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