Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The post or standard of a plow, which is attached at its upper extremity to the plow-beam, and affords below an attachment for the mold-board and land-side and in directly for the plowshare.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called
standard , orpost .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The part of a
plough thatprojects downward beneath thebeam , for holding theshare and other working parts.
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Examples
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[Sidenote: The bodie of man without concord of the partes, peri - sheth.] thesame bodie in partes disseuered, is feeble and weake, and thereby falleth to ruin, and perisheth.
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However, when the name Baal was exclusively appropriated to idolatrous worship (cf.Hos. ii. 16 seq.), abhorrence for the unholy word was marked by writing _b [= o] sheth_ (shameful thing) for _baal_ in compound proper names, and thus we get the usual forms Ishbosheth, Mephibosheth.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Their name means "Southerners." sheathe (sheth), cover with something which protects. sheen (shen), brightness.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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Thus there gradually grew up a tendency to avoid the term, and in accordance with the idea of Ex.xxiii. 13, it was replaced by the contemptuous _b [= o] sheth_, "shame" (see above).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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The mother wishes this fact to be continually in evidence and so gives her son a name indicative of this fact: sheth, A.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Ramachandra (Victory to Ramachandra) roza ryot - peasant, farmer sadhu sanatanji (Hindu) sannyasi satyagraha satyagrahi seth, sheth
APPENDIX I 1914
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Mountain River (Der-sheth Tessy), where was a camp of their friends.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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This was Mephibo-sheth; but he was incapacitated for the throne by lameness.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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There's always boom tomorrow. crazychets (67 posts) on April 14, 2009 - 4: 58pm. is gorgous, sheetal sheth has something i can't quite put my finger on, she does have lovely eyes for sure,
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Aarti Sheth: No Desk Left Open: My Story of the Economic Recession's Impact on My Education (Video) 2009
bilby commented on the word sheth
I was hoping for a useful visual here.
January 28, 2013