Lexicographical Neighbors of Muzzlers
Literary usage of Muzzlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Altrincham and Bowdon: With an Account of the Barony and House by Alfred Ingham (1879)
""for neglecting his office about cleaning the town's well;" and the dog muzzlers
in 1zd., for not doing as they ought to have done. Concerning the Overseers ..."
2. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb (1908)
"... Ale-tasters, Dog-muzzlers, Scavengers, and Market-lookers, we see this tribunal
appointing its own " Lay layers " to assess and collect the rates that ..."
3. Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896) by John Stephen Farmer (1896)
"... women Salt tears fast streaming from each bungy eye; To nail the ticker, or
to mill the cly steal a watch '• Through thick and thin their busy muzzlers ..."
4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society, John Harland, Manchester (England). Court-Leet (1862)
"... beadles, ale-tasters, dog-muzzlers, and all the merely feudal functionaries
of the old manor. They exercise the right, however, of taking market-tolls, ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1896)
"... an element of humour, and may be commended to the muzzlers of the friend of
man, who are so active in different parts of the country in our own time. ..."
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