Definitions
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- adjective Each; every.
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- adjective
Each orevery
Etymologies
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Examples
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It means that the Highland wives are cursing and banning the red-coats, and wishing ill-luck to them, and ilka ane that ever spoke the
Rob Roy 2005
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Sundays, and fended weel for ye in the ilka days besides.
Old Mortality 2004
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On ilka hand he's pressed by want, on ilka side by danger.
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"Our circumstances are vastly different, Ner - ilka."
Nerilka's Story McCaffrey, Anne 1986
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And brings to gladden ilka heart her rural pleasures a ',
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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The linties they are lilting love, on ilka bush an 'tree,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Sae saying, I gared him climb a rape by whilk he gat abune the riggin o 'the bield, then steeking to the door thro' whilk he gaed, I jimp had trailed doun the rape, when in rinned twa red coat chiels, who couping ilka ane i 'their gait begun to touzle out the ben, and the de'il gaed o'er Jock Wabster.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various
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'A mutchkin o 'usquebaugh for ilka man,' shouted a burly flesher, 'tis mair heartenin'.
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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What they write canna fail o 'being poetry, even the most middlin' o't, for it's aye wi 'them the ebullition o' their ain feeling and their ain fancy, and whenever that's the case, a bonny word or twa will drap itself intil ilka stanzy, and a sweet stanzy or twa intil ilka pome, and sae they touch, and sae they win a body's heart. '
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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Sin 'ilka wauf o' win 'that blaws dings dauds o't on the lea,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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