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- noun Plural form of
bigging .
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Examples
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The steamer, guided by one of those excellent pilots from the Irish sea, passed without hesitation between floating buoys, stone columns, and biggings, surmounted with lighthouses, which mark the entrance to the channel.
The Blockade Runners 1876
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And my grandmother had tales o 'auld Ettericks who rade wi' Douglas and the Bruce and the ancient Kings o 'Scots; and she used to tell o' others in her mother's time, terrible shockheaded men hunting the deer and rinnin 'on the high moors, and bidin' in the broken stane biggings on the hill-taps. "
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907
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