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- noun Plural form of
griskin .
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Examples
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Then a like number of "griskins" were cut from the antelope venison -- it being esteemed of least value; and thus provided, Ossaroo started forth to set his snares.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850
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"griskins" been submitted to the light, no one could have told they had been "carved" in the darkness.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850
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Every one declared the same; and Paddy was ordered to cook some _griskins_ forthwith.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832. Various
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"How fortunate to have such a handy thing as an atmosphere around us," cried the Frenchman; "it not only enables us to breathe, but it actually keeps us from sizzling up like griskins."
All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866
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The bones, with part of the meat left on them, are divided into spare-ribs, griskins, and chines.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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The bones, with part of the meat left on them, are divided into spare-ribs, griskins, and chines.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Karl was loaded with the thongs, skewers, and griskins, while Ossaroo himself was in charge of the snares.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850
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My feet by this time were absolutely in griskins, nor was I by any means prepared for a most unexpected proposal, which the spokeswoman, after some private conversation with the other, undertook to make.
The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Ned keeps an eating-house, sir, famous for pork-griskins; but Sir Munko cannot abide pork, no more than the King’s most Sacred Majesty,21 nor my Lord Duke of Lennox, nor Lord
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-- "Scarified into griskins as he was," proceeded Bradly looking at Ned with a grin of contempt -- "ay, indeed, snug and cosily we laid him in his bed of feadhers, and covered him wid thin scraws for fear he'd catch could -- he! he! he!
The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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