Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
groan . - To strangle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete See
groan .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Obsolete form of
groan . - noun Obsolete form of
groan .
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Examples
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"Oh! now I say what ye mane," admitted the woodsman; "but I niver owned a camera in all me life, so I'm what ye'd call grane at it.
The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound A Tour on Skates and Iceboats George A. Warren
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And, as I love you no less than you love me, I will therefore be satisfied with the lands you grane me and never seek to overthrow, you.
The World Above Cameron Dokey 2010
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And, as I love you no less than you love me, I will therefore be satisfied with the lands you grane me and never seek to overthrow, you.
The World Above Cameron Dokey 2010
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September 17, 2009 at 9:59 am dis iz truenis. forechunitly da grane/biprawdukfrei fuds iz geddin moar poplar aifinks fredmeyer haz an cuplol brans nao.
All you can eat bufeh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Diz adbise comin frum a wommin who been diborsed twise so tayk wif grane of salt.
CLUELESS - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Cud bee liek the grane ov sand or is it a corm? dubbled awn the chessbord effekt.
Fired Fox - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Ye wad like to see Grace, man, for as dour as ye are — Eh, Lord I I wish he may be weel, that was a sair grane! or, maybe, he thought I was speaking of heavenly grace, and no of
The Black Dwarf 2004
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'Och! master Jamey, come in out of that grane grass; d'yiz want ter dirty the clane pinafore I've put on yiz this blissed afthernoon?' spoke the nurse.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various
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For he gave to me not so much as half a grane of that Powder, and with that were transmuted nine ounces, and three quarters of an ounce of Argetitvive.
The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius
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As Mr. Con Murphy said, he looked less like "a blushin 'grane onion" than he had immediately after the concoction the drugstore clerk had sold him took effect.
The Corner House Girls at School Grace Brooks Hill 1917
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