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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the quotation.
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Examples
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Then, while Billy wandered in a vain search for abalones, Saxon lay and dabbled in the crystal-clear water of a roak-pool, dipping up handfuls of glistening jewels -- ground bits of shell and pebble of flashing rose and blue and green and violet.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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Then, while Billy wandered in a vain search for abalones, Saxon lay and dabbled in the crystal-clear water of a roak-pool, dipping up handfuls of glistening jewels -- ground bits of shell and pebble of flashing rose and blue and green and violet.
Chapter 6 1913
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The leader was called "Tos-ard-e-roak," which Joe says, from the sound, he thinks means Lieutenant Back.
Schwatka's Search 1869
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