Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In cutlery, a workman who forms and fixes the hafts or handles of knives.
- noun A wrangler; a caviler; a debater. Hollyband, Dict., 1593.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A caviler; a wrangler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
caviler ; awrangler .
Etymologies
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Examples
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January 30, 2008 at 11:51 am wy, tanks sew mush, gremlin mah fren.. yoor 2 kynde… ai jus myte maik et threw teh hafter nune, nao!
fo last time - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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‘Mam,’ says I, ‘you must be tired hafter your walk.’
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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‘Mam,’ says I, ‘you must be tired hafter your walk.’
Burlesques 2006
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Ye don't hafter put them pretty han's to housework.
Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper
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You take dis en hide it unner de house, on de sill unner de do ', whar Hannibal'll hafter walk ober it ev'y day.
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You'll hafter git along as best you kin till I come back.
The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long
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We women only hafter suffer for a man's fool tricks.
The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long
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I tell you, we hafter just git up an 'dust to make a crop.
Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd
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'The day hafter,' went on Curly, 'if it be fine I may be a hawkin' horinges.
'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre
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Those wuz good ole days for de black man; didn't hafter worry about nuthin '.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Work Projects Administration
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