10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLOWSTAFF»
Discover the use of
plowstaff in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
plowstaff and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish ...
[VL. *agurium: id. <L. augurium: id. <augur: diviner. See augur.] aguerrido, da a.
brave, battle hardened; aguerrir t. to accustom novice soldiers to war. [a- (1) +
guerra.] aguijada f. a goad; plowstaff. [VL. (pertica) *aquileta: (stick) provided with
a) ...
2
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
... Plaister,plaster. Plenish'd,stocked. alittle. three imperial woolen plowstaff.
blowing. money. beer. kilt. (Scots). cloth. pints. Pleugh, plew, a plow. Pliskie, a
trick. Pliver, a plover.
3
English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations
The same humour found vent in ' John Swyrdebrake,' 1 ' Adrian Breakspear,' '
William Longstaffe,' 'Antony Halstaff' (perchance 'Hale-staff'),2 and 'Thomas
Ploghstaf (Plowstaff). With one or two more general terms of this class we may
proceed.
Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley, 1815
4
The Pleasure of Poetry: Reading and Enjoying British Poetry ...
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee Wi' murd'ring pattle! sleek / cowering headlong
scamper loath plowstaff I'm truly sorry Man's dominion Has broken Nature's social
union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle, At me, thy poor, ...
5
The Rev. Oliver Heywood, B.A., 1630-1702: His Autobiography, ...
Near Barnet Castle in the north a man was plowing lately the boy that driues the
plow angered him, he took up the plowstaff and knockt him down, there the boy
lay, he stird him but found him dead, seeing that he set up three great shrieks the
...
Oliver Heywood, Joseph Horsfall Turner, 1883
6
THE NORTH RIDING RECORD SOCIETY FOR THE PUBLICATION OF ...
... 47, 102, 252, 257 Holland aprons, 99, 142 „ cap, A, 148 Hood, A, 53 Horse-hair
, 136 Horse-shoes, 234 Imp coat, 143 Iron gavelocke, 168 ,, plowstaff, 147 „ ring,
84 „ socke, 234 „ teams, 234 Kersey cloth, 237, 252 Kids of whinns, 160 Knives, ...
7
Adventures in literature series: teacher's manual
0. pattle: plowstaff. 13. whyles: at times. 15. .4 daimen . . . throve: an occasional
head of grain in a shock. 17. lave: rest. Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin! It's silly
wa's° 350 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY A Man's a Man for A' That To a Mouse.
Mary Rives Bowman, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963
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The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Middle Ages
My plowstaff shall he my pikestaff and push at the roots And help my coulter" to
cut and cleanse the furrows." slou' blade Now Perkin and the pilgrims have put
themselves to plowing. Many there helped him to plow his half-acre. Ditchers and
...
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The McGraw-Hill Guide to English Literature: William Blake ...
... many diminutives ("beastie," "breastie," "housie," "mousie"); and the
employment of dialect words, especially relating to weather — snell ("bitter") and
cranreuch ("hoarfrost") — and agriculture — pattle ("plowstaff ') and coulter ("
cutter blade").
Karen Lawrence, Betsy Seifter, Lois Ratner, 1985
... An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle, 10 At me, thy poor, earth-
born companion, An' fellow-mortal ! 1 sleeket: sleek. 4 bickering brattle: hurrying
scamper. 5 laith: loath. 6 pattle: plowstaff. I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve
...
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks, 1973
