Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A local name in England of various beds of the Silurian and Jurassic, as of certain thick flagstones in the lower Ludlow near Malvern, of a gray oölitic limestone near Stonesfield, of a limestone at Blisworth, and of a fissile argillaceous limestone near the base of the Purbeck beds at Hartwell.
  • noun A pendant; an ear-ring.
  • Headlong; suddenly.

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Examples

  • And dont Argue as i am from Pendle and a Lib Dem so i know about the Tory Scum of pendle which now includes Karim and his disciples.

    Sajjad Karim MEP: Goes Home to the Tories 2007

  • No swimming and sports centre cuts in our budget say pendle liberals

    British Blogs 2009

  • I min generation var der mange, som forsøgte at pendle mellem to kulturer.

    _Politik 2009

  • Shame Mrs Whittaker does not live locally and therefore missing out on the great place that she and her colleagues have created in pendle.

    unknown title 2009

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