Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hornpipe danced with clogs on.
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Examples
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He danced the Lancashire clog-hornpipe; he rattled out puns and conundrums; yet did he contrive to infuse into all this mummery and buffoonery, into this salmagundi of the incongruous and the
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Maggy was now so overjoyed that, after hugging her little mother with all her might, she went down-stairs like a clog-hornpipe to find somebody or other to whom to impart her gladness.
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841
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