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Definition of Firking
1. firk [v] - See also: firk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firking
Literary usage of Firking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1762)
"... half barrel, or firking, except the fame barrel contain two and thirty gallons,
the half barrel and firkin after the fame rate ; (2) and that the fame ..."
2. The Statutes at Large: From Magna Charta to ... 1869 by Great Britain (1762)
"... half barrel, or firking, except the fame barrel contain two and thirty gallons,
the half barrel and firkin after the fame rate ; (2) and that the fame ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"This is vouched for by Nashe in Have with you to Saffron Walden, where he declares
that, in "the concise and firking ..."
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