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- noun Plural form of
peerie .
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Examples
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While attending the High School, from 1817 to 1820, there was the usual rage amongst boys for spinning-tops, "peeries," and "young cannon."
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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The peeries were turned with perfect accuracy, and the steel shod, or spinning pivot, was centred so as to correspond exactly with the axis of the top.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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They could spin twice as long as the bought peeries.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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I fear that our wedding-day is a long way off yet, for, although I could easily make enough to support you in comfort if there were no difficulties to hamper me, there is not much chance of my making a fortune, as Andrew Black says, by turning parritch-sticks and peeries! "
Hunted and Harried 1859
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