Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scots law, the district attached to a mill, or the whole lands astricted to a mill, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain to the mill to be ground. See
thirlage .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Scots Law) The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.
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- noun obsolete The
duty of a tenant to bringcorn etc to a particularmill to be ground; theland soastricted
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November 2nd, 2006 at 9:53 pm cock sucken Anti-Gay Evangelical Leader Resigns After Accusations of Gay Affair « The Budz says:
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"Two thefts with habit and repute, a hame-sucken, rather a good forgery, and an assault with intent to commit."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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There was Lassie rescueing coal miners one week, pulling sucken ships to shore the next week.
WTIT: The Blog 2009
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So you mean John Kerry’s sucken eye sockets and massive penis as seen a previous jewschool story are a result as him being made out of clay?
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"you'll rue it, rue it, rue it!" and he went into a coil of lawyer's threats against the invaders, talking of brander-irons and gallows, hame-sucken and housebreaking.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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