Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hook with a spring-catch to prevent it from unfastening.
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Examples
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U-shaped iron clives which with its pin was used for hitching horses to
Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley
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The antebellum Negro often suspended this U-shaped clives by a string and beat it with its pin along with the playing on "Quills" much after the order that a drum is beaten.
Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley
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Qnid veco fi poenitentia medicinalis fit, five ordioata ad illos animi moibos avermncandos, qoi pro - clives homines ad peccandom & ciant?
Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782
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