Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Material, such as rags, etc., from which paper is made.

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Examples

  • a mine, or plant a swamp with cane to grow paper-stock, or found a hospital, or invest in a patent shad-bone separator, or start a college somewhere on the frontier, contiguous to a land speculation.

    The Gilded Age A tale of today Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • a mine, or plant a swamp with cane to grow paper-stock, or found a hospital, or invest in a patent shad-bone separator, or start a college somewhere on the frontier, contiguous to a land speculation.

    The Gilded Age, Part 2. Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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