Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little shoot; a twig; a sucker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A little shoot; a twig; a sucker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A little
shoot ; atwig ; asucker .
Etymologies
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Latin surculus.
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Examples
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The hoss shied at me, lying drunk in a ditch, you see; the hoss backed, the surcle broke; it warn't in human natur for her to keep her seat, and that gal rides like an angel; but the mustang throwed her.
Two Men of Sandy Bar; a drama Bret Harte 1869
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