Definitions
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- noun Prov. Eng. A turning lathe.
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- noun UK, dialect A
turning lathe .
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Examples
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When in the name of their firste frutes they haue cutte of the eare of the beaste, they throwe it ouer the house.
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Then to throwe in the earth again, and in token that ther is a Christian ther bewried, to sette vp a crosse of wodde, garnisshed with yvie, cipres, or laurelle.
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The Persians beare suche reuerence to their floudes, that thei neither wasshe, pysse, nor throwe deade carcase into them.
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Thei delight in long heare, and looke what lyce it fortuneth any of them to take aboute them: thei bite theim, and throwe them awaie, the whiche propretie, thei onely of all the Poeni haue.
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God, and voyde of all earthly corruption: had there no sepulchre in very diede, for that he being a spirituall body conceiued by the breathe of the holy ghost coulde not suffre, but should come againe to be iudge of the Gentiles: This saieth Segonius, and many other thinges sounding to like effecte: whiche the Mahometeines are wonte to throwe out against the Christians, bothe foolisshely and wickedly.
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If any fortune to pine awaie of sickenesse, hym eate thei not: but put in a hole, and throwe earthe vpon him.
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They weare long garments of lynnen, hemmed about the skirtes beneth, which the call Casiliras: ouer the which they throwe on another white garment also.
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Diuers of them throwe their dead into Riuers, other cofer them vp in earthen cofres, some enclose them in glasse, and kepe them in their houses a yeare, and in the meane season worship them deuoutly, and offre vnto them the first of all their encreace.
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From fiue yeres olde, to twentie and fowre, thei learne to ride, to throwe the Darte, to shoote, and chiefly to haue a tongue voide of all vntruthe.
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That lechery licke not away the vigour of their spirites, and strength: nor lacke throwe menne in desperate doompes.
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