Lexicographical Neighbors of Offputs
Literary usage of Offputs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"... the land for wheat, beans, oats, potatoes, turnips, tures, or naked fallow,
m their respective order, he continues :— trilling offputs in winter. ..."
2. Principles of Breeding: A Treatise on Thremmatology Or the Principles and by Eugene Davenport, Henry Lewis Rietz (1907)
"They were the offputs, but accidentally, or of necessity, they were not of the
main line of descent. In the corn-breeding experiments already cited, ..."
3. The Book of the Farm by Henry Stephens (1852)
"... inconveniences to happen in the busy season and the provoking reflection occurs
that the loss incurred now was occasioned by trifling offputs in winter. ..."
4. The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister by Thomas Boston (1852)
"The willing mind goes not abont to seek how to shift obedience to the divine
call; nor does it seek offputs and delays, till the season of the duty is away; ..."
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