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Definition of Proking
1. proke [v] - See also: proke
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proking
Literary usage of Proking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by Arthur Benoni Evans (1881)
"was the advice tendered by a neighbour to a woman whose husband attacked her with
the shovel. proking-iron, sb. a poker for the fire. ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"proking-SPIT, seems to mean a long Spanish rapier, in contrast with a Scotch
broad sword. ... or proking-spit of ..."
3. A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester by John Drummond Robertson (1890)
"proking-iron, sb. a poker for ... "With a broad Scot or proking spit of Spain."
Sat. IV. 4. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"was the advice tendered by a neighbour to a woman whose husband attacked her with
the shovel. proking-iron, sb. a poker for the fire. ..."
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