Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In alchemy, liquefied, as a metal; potable.
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Examples
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When he comes back I'll do lamb dinner w/sweet potate 'frites becuase our oven is fixed.
vaneigem Diary Entry vaneigem 2001
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I'd set t 'potate at t' top-side o 't' 'lotment, and theer, just wheer I'd set it, were a pig-sty, wi' a pig inside it fit to kill.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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Well, I were glowerin 'at t' potate when a lad com up that I'd niver seen afore.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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He were chuff, were Sam, 'cause he'd getten six pund o 'potates off o' one root; I reckoned I'd getten six pund off o 'one potate.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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'Twere a potate, sure enough, but I'd niver set eyes on owt like it afore, nor thee either.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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'But thou mun bury t' pig same as thou buried t 'potate.'
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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I'd fallen asleep, an all that I'd seen o 't' potate an 't' pig an 't' house, ay, an 't' lad wi 'green eyes, were nobbut a dream.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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I killed t 'pig and I buried him same as I'd buried t' potate.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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Du pain doré -- potate pie -- an '' noder t'ing be dere
The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems William Henry Drummond 1880
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t 'pig an' buried t 'potate afore that, somebody had belt a house, ay, an' belt it all i 'one neet.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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