Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Numbering twelve times twenty, or two hundred and forty; as, twelve-score seamen.
- noun Twelve-score yards, a common length for a shot in archery, and hence often alluded to formerly in measurement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic Two hundred and forty.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"You have perhaps twelvescore armsmen," Jecks pointed out.
The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998
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One of the old buccaneer writers of a century later says: ` ` The Spaniards affirm to this day that he took at that time twelvescore tons of plate and sixteen bowls of coined money a man (his number being then forty-five men in all), insomuch that they were forced to heave much of it overboard, because his ship could not carry it all. ''
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The winners then saluted the King and Queen, and withdrew for a space to rest and renew their bow-strings for the keenest contest of all; while the lists were cleared and a new target -- the open one -- was set up at twelvescore paces.
Robin Hood 1917
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One of the old buccaneer writers of a century later says: "The Spaniards affirm to this day that he took at that time twelvescore tons of plate and sixteen bowls of coined money a man (his number being then forty-five men in all), insomuch that they were forced to heave much of it overboard, because his ship could not carry it all."
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main Howard Pyle 1882
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'Only twelvescore pounds, my lord, when I be in wrestling trim.
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Curwen, Knight, in Henry the Eight's time, an excelent archer at twelvescore merks; and went up with his men to shoote with that reknowned King at the dissolution of abbeys: and the King says to him, Curwen, why doth thee begg none of these Abbeys?
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‘Only twelvescore pounds, my lord, when I be in wrestling trim.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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We have somewhere over twelvescore lancers and others with us. "
The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998
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Spaniards affirm to this day that he took at that time twelvescore tons of plate and sixteen bowls of coined money a man (his number being then forty-five men in all), insomuch that they were forced to heave much of it overboard, because his ship could not carry it all. "
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Howard Pyle 1882
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