Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sort of fishing-net: so called from the five entrances into it.
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Grace, a refpedlable ftaymaker in that ancient cinque-port.
The life of Thomas Pain <!>, the author of Rights of men <!>. With a defence of his writings 1791
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