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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
proin .
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Examples
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Poope, to weigh down the ship as it were, to bring the water forward to the Pumpe: the one brought his match lighted betweene two spoons, the other brought his in a little peece of a Can: and so in the name of God, the _Turkes_ and _Moores_ being placed as you have heard, and five and forty in number, and _Rawlins_ having proined the Tuch-holes, _Iames
Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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