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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the extract.
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"Bagh, bagh!" groaned the man again, and he struggled up now to rest upon his shield-hand, gazing wildly round, and, shuddering before seeming satisfied that the danger was passed, he raised his curved sword and looked at it.
Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East George Manville Fenn 1870
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