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Definition of Searces
1. searce [v] - See also: searce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Searces
Literary usage of Searces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... as if it were horse haire: these searces being well fitted, doe sift thirtie
quintals in a day and a night; then they put the ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... as if it were horse haire: these searces being well fitted, doe sift thirtie
quintals in a day and a night; then they put the ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... as if it were horse haire : these searces being well fitted, doe sift thirtie
quintals in a day and a night ; then they put the ..."
4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1856)
"In your bakehouse you shall have a fair bolting- house, with large pipes to bolt
meal in, .... you shall have bolters, searces [sifters or ..."
5. A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1821)
"Near the mortars are to be hung searces of different sizes and fineness;and near
the anvil, a hammer, files, rasps, small pincers, ..."
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