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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
knaw .
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Examples
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"Mr Whats-his-name knaws that, an 'I knaws yu got he staying with
A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900
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I felt a warm calm settle inside of me, wrap it's fingers around the fear that knaws at me daily.
OK, For Now Dave Hingsburger 2007
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And my heart break still knaws on the back of my mind.
nisayon Diary Entry nisayon 2004
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"Jonathan gave a hint o 'somethin'," continued Joan, "though he never named no time, which, if he was trusted with, he knaws better than to tell of."
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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Why, I knaws by the little I've a done that ways myself how 'tis.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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"Iss, my dear, I knaws you do," returned Joan soothingly, "and he loves you too."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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Thaa knaws as weall as I do th 'bread is FREE, but we mun pay for th' baking.
Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell
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I _think_ he oölogizes; I _know_ he eats cherries, (we counted five of them at one time in a single tree, the stones pattering down like the sparse hail that preludes a storm), and that he knaws off the small end of pears to get at the seeds.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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'Ay, he's mine, so says t' Church an 't' law, Aah b'lieve, but 'od rabbit him, Aah says, who knaws the clumsiness o' the creature.
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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And that Adam knaws, and's had it in his mind from 'fust along what game he was after.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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