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  • noun Plural form of gean.

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  • We wore geans and shirts of yellow cotton, we wore no shoes up til

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives Work Projects Administration

  • She had marked a clump of rowans and geans a hundred yards or so from the burn where she determined to stop her horse and reconnoitre before going up to the farm itself.

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  • My wife was now upon her journey to her father's; but where that was, or how far off, it was impossible for me to conceive by her description of the way; for she distinguished it not by miles or leagues, but by swan-geans, and names of rocks, seas, and mountains, which I could neither comprehend the distance of from each other, nor from

    Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732

  • just follows the law of the fittest, the strongest, etc. is bound to pass his geans, like the stongest lion, He has achived more than most golfers, it is natural, it is his nature.

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