Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of swallowing.
- noun A guzzling- or drinking-match.
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Examples
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Hudson [Footnote: The real name of this veteran sportsman is now restored.] the keeper, and sicken a day as we had wi 'the foumarts and the tods, and sicken a blythe gae-down as we had again e'en!
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Hudson [Footnote: The real name of this veteran sportsman is now restored.] the keeper, and sicken a day as we had wi 'the foumarts and the tods, and sicken a blythe gae-down as we had again e'en!
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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Lord, man, he sent Tam Hudson [Footnote: The real name of this veteran sportsman is now restored.] the keeper, and sicken a day as we had wi 'the foumarts and the tods, and sicken a blythe gae-down as we had again e'en!
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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a 'just for a bield at auld Aiken Drum's bridal, and a bit blithe gae-down wi' had in't, some sair rainy weather.
The Antiquary 1845
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a wheen hallenshakers like mysell, and the mason-lads that built the lang dike that gaes down the loaning, and twa or three herds maybe, just set to wark, and built this bit thing here that ye ca 'the -- the -- Praetorian, and a' just for a bield at auld Aiken Drum's bridal, and a bit blithe gae-down wi 'had in't, some sair rainy weather.
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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a wheen hallenshakers like mysell, and the mason-lads that built the lang dike that gaes down the loaning, and twa or three herds maybe, just set to wark, and built this bit thing here that ye ca 'the -- the -- Praetorian, and a' just for a bield at auld Aiken Drum's bridal, and a bit blithe gae-down wi 'had in't, some sair rainy weather.
The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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Hudson11 the keeper, and sicken a day as we had wi’ the foumarts and the tods, and sicken a blythe gae-down as we had again e’en!
Guy Mannering 1815
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