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I'd say to the members, don't come down here to Halifax with your long lockrums about politicks, makin, a great touss about nothin; but open the country, foster agricultur, encourage trade, incorporate companies, make bridges, facilitate conveyance, and above all things make a Railroad from
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
sionnach commented on the word lockrums
ideas that aren't very popular (Luciferous Logolepsy)
April 25, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word lockrums
(pl. noun) - A factitious word for oddities of manner, or eccentricities. --John Farmer's Americanisms Old and New, 1889
January 26, 2018