Lexicographical Neighbors of Strappings
Literary usage of Strappings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Husbandry: Exhibiting the Farming Practice in Various Parts of the by John French Burke (1834)
"Tlie method of draught, it will however be perceived, adds a flexible bow, or a
thong of leather, which encircles the neck, to the strappings of the horn ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1870)
"... ladies' trunks, covered like the roof of a house, of a clear new drab, with
metal corners, the pure yellow strappings without a soil ; new portmanteaus, ..."
3. The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (1911)
"So, instead of being the best, I was the worst child in school, for not one had
ever before received two strappings in a forenoon. ..."
4. The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (1920)
"So, instead of being the best, I was the worst child in school, for not one had
ever before received two strappings in a forenoon. ..."
5. The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (1911)
"So, instead of being the best, I was the worst child in school, for not one had
ever before received two strappings in a forenoon. ..."
6. Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by Arthur Benoni Evans (1881)
"strappings, sb. the last milk forced from the udder, particularly rich in quality.
The milk before the ' strappings' is called the ' foremilk. ..."
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