Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
weasand .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
weasand .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
weasand .
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Examples
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'Part is bruises and part is sickness of the waves,' he muttered; 'but if I make not shift to slit his weazand ere nightfall, pox take all my advancement for ever.
Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906
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But I wish your long-legged friend would come back, even if he were intent upon slitting my weazand for my attention to the widow.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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"It would have needed scant preparation to destroy thee; even as if a man should catch and cut the throat of a kid, or slit the weazand of a soft sheep and butcher it.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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Wazir's daughter accepted the excuse, and then arising went forth and brought a pigeon whose weazand she split and whose blood she daubed upon the snow-white sheet. [
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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