Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A market-cross.
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Examples
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"I had as lief take her dowry with this condition, to be whipped at the high-cross every morning."
progress... frostfox 2006
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I cannot tell; but I had as lief take her dowry with this condition, to be whipped at the high-cross every morning.
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Thus he was dragged about by the filly through the road, scratching his bare breech all the way; she still multiplying her kicks against him, and straying for fear over hedge and ditch, insomuch that she trepanned his thick skull so that his cockle brains were dashed out near the Osanna or high-cross.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Snap legdrop by Mysterio gets two and the men meet in mid-air going for high-cross bodies.
Scott's Blog of Doom 2009
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Snap legdrop by Mysterio gets two and the men meet in mid-air going for high-cross bodies.
Scott's Blog of Doom 2009
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Snap legdrop by Mysterio gets two and the men meet in mid-air going for high-cross bodies.
Scott's Blog of Doom 2009
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Snap legdrop by Mysterio gets two and the men meet in mid-air going for high-cross bodies.
Scott's Blog of Doom 2009
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Snap legdrop by Mysterio gets two and the men meet in mid-air going for high-cross bodies.
Scott's Blog of Doom 2009
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Snap legdrop by Mysterio gets two and the men meet in mid-air going for high-cross bodies.
Scott's Blog of Doom 2009
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Snap legdrop by Mysterio gets two and the men meet in mid-air going for high-cross bodies.
Scott's Blog of Doom 2009
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