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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hornpipe danced with clogs on.

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Examples

  • 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

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

  • 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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