Definitions
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- adjective soaked in or smelling of
turpentine - adjective heavily
diluted withturpentine
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Examples
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And to make no count of the beadin 'I threw in, whenever it were a straightforrard job, and the turpsy knots, and the clogging of the teeth -- 'tis a bad bit to swallow, when the mill is strown. "
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