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- adverb UK, dialect, archaic To one's
home ;homeward .
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Examples
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Well, now I must get these spars home-along, and tomorrow, thank
The Woodlanders 2006
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‘Come fair-day we shall have to light up before we start for home-along.’
Wessex Tales 2006
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Then the second time I met en was full-buff in town street, when my breeches were tore into a long strent by getting through a copse of thorns and brimbles for a short cut home-along; and not wanting to disgrace the man by spaking in that state, I fixed my eye on the weathercock to let en pass me as a stranger.
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“Finish doing the emmets, and carry the bag home-along.”
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‘Then,’ said the shepherd, ‘I’ll get me home-along, and rest for a few hours.
A Changed Man 2006
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‘But I want to get home-along,’ dear Jim, she coaxed.
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'If it dunna come soon I'll go home-along,' she said.
Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904
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'I mun go home-along,' she said; 'the sun's undering.'
Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904
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'I be going home-along,' she said, but he pulled her in and shut the door.
Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904
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'I'm a-cold,' said Hazel; 'the sun's undering; I'd best go home-along.'
Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904
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