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- noun nautical a form of
decorative squaresennit work used for coveringstanchions
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[35] Fox complains bitterly that these pious acts, prompted by the Holy Spirit, were requited by an untoward generation with hooting, pelting, coachwhipping and horsewhipping.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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