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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of tight, taut.

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Examples

  • Before reagan, the system was well funded enough that poverty rates dropped even in tought economic times.

    Think Progress » Rita Evacuation Exposes Class Divide 2005

  • It made for a less than perfect tree, but the tought was there and fun for everyone!

    » Wherefore Art Thou, Christmas Tree? Strocel.com 2009

  • Rubio is yet another clownish conservative whose primary skill is sounding tought and feathering his own nest and yet the tea party sees him as the second coming of Ronald Reagan.

    Crist brushes off top adviser's resignation 2010

  • All I have to say is that my wife and myself are both Certified Law Enforcement, and 17 years of Policing have tought me one thing, You Need A Gun!

    On Guns In Bars 2009

  • The guy tought constitutional law at freakin Harvard.

    Saturday spotlight on Michigan 2010

  • Yes | No | Report from madtrapper wrote 32 weeks 2 days ago something tells me i should not give this article to my wife (of only 6 days). i am however pleased to share that i have tought her to point, retreive, and thanks to four years of culinary school she already knows how to cook, haha!

    Why Fishing is America's Cultural Compass 2009

  • Baiting is just how I was tought to get deer, just like I was tought to kick bushes and pop the running rabbits with my .22, or how I figured out that flushing treed doves into the open for a good shot is better than sitting there in some field.

    High Powered Scopes 2009

  • Baiting is just how I was tought to get deer, just like I was tought to kick bushes and pop the running rabbits with my .22, or how I figured out that flushing treed doves into the open for a good shot is better than sitting there in some field.

    High Powered Scopes 2009

  • All I have to say is that my wife and myself are both Certified Law Enforcement, and 17 years of Policing have tought me one thing, You Need A Gun!

    On Guns In Bars 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from madtrapper wrote 32 weeks 2 days ago something tells me i should not give this article to my wife (of only 6 days). i am however pleased to share that i have tought her to point, retreive, and thanks to four years of culinary school she already knows how to cook, haha!

    Why Fishing is America's Cultural Compass 2009

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