Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
dap .
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Examples
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An 'ye've been and fallen into the dape pit as aisy as a blind sheep.
Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse
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"I wanted him to walk out to dape water, but he said he didn't wish to get the blissed things wet too suddent like."
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"Shure, I'm in a bit av a hole at prisint, but not too dape to crawl out of."
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"Ye mane that we're betwixt the divel and the dape say," observed
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The first is at the time of the flowering of the pear-trees, on behalf of the oxen: "Iuppiter dapalis, quod tibi fieri oportet in domo familia mea culignam vini dapi eius rei [381] ergo, _macte hac illace dape polucenda esto_."
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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The knife wint dape; and there's somethin 'wrong inside of him.
Shenandoah Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911
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"Yis," added Jimmie, "and just be afther sayin 'how dape the water is,
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"Oi wuz th 'fur-rst whoite man he seen in th' woods th 'day he stud knee-dape in th' shnow av th 'tote-road, lukin' down at th 'carcass av
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And again, when the wine is offered: "Iuppiter dapalis, _macte istace dape polucenda esto.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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I remimber it, fur it was niver towld me, nor to anny wan else, fur it was too dreadful to say axceptin’ in Latin an’ in a whisper fur fear the avil sper’ts ’ud hear it, that don’t undhershtand thim dape langwidges.
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