Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A term used indiscriminately in England for the two distinct diseases of swine which in the United States are separated under the names of swine-plague and hog-cholera.
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Examples
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And it doesn't account for the swine-fever story that Joseph Antony
Priscilla's Spies George A. Birmingham 1907
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Christian fortitude, and then he died and left his money to a swine-fever hospital.
Reginald 1870-1916 Saki 1893
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We are having a grand lambing season, but there's a nasty spread of swine-fever, and the whole country's papered with handbills.
My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883
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Well, thought Kirk, as he appended his careful signature to a number of routine documents, Datchett’s farm was in the Paggleham district; he’d put young Sellon on to that; he couldn’t do himself much harm over swine-fever.
Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937
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