Definition of Swabbers

1. Noun. (plural of swabber) ¹

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Definition of Swabbers

1. swabber [n] - See also: swabber

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swabbers

sveltenesses
svelter
sveltest
svengali
svengalis
sverdrup
sverdrups
sverigeite
svl
svn
svyatoslavite
svyazhinite
swab
swabbed
swabber
swabbers (current term)
swabbie
swabbies
swabbing
swabby
swabs
swack
swacked
swad
swaddies
swaddle
swaddled
swaddler
swaddlers
swaddles

Literary usage of Swabbers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Evolution of Whist: A Study of the Progressive Changes which the Game by William Pole (1894)
"With these names there came to be associated another of a very strange character ; namely, " swabbers " or ..."

2. The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained: And Its Practice by Cavendish (1876)
"Swift also, in his " Essay on the Fates of Clergymen" (1728), ridicules Archbishop Tenison for not understanding the meaning of swabbers. ..."

3. The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained: And Its Practice by Cavendish (1879)
"It has been conjectured by later writers that swabbers were identical with the honours; but this is an error. In Captain Francis Grose's " Classical ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Fielding (History of Mr Jonathan WUd) says that whisk-and-swabbers was "the ... Grose (Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1785) states that swabbers are "the ..."

5. The Whist Table: A Treasury of Notes on the Royal Game by "Cavendish," C by Portland, Cavendish, Abraham S. Wilks (1894)
"played with what were called swabbers, which were possibly so termed, because they who had certain cards in their hand were entitled to take up a share of ..."

6. The Evolution of Whist: A Study of the Progressive Changes which the Game by William Pole (1894)
"With these names there came to be associated another of a very strange character ; namely, " swabbers " or ..."

7. The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained: And Its Practice by Cavendish (1876)
"Swift also, in his " Essay on the Fates of Clergymen" (1728), ridicules Archbishop Tenison for not understanding the meaning of swabbers. ..."

8. The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained: And Its Practice by Cavendish (1879)
"It has been conjectured by later writers that swabbers were identical with the honours; but this is an error. In Captain Francis Grose's " Classical ..."

9. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Fielding (History of Mr Jonathan WUd) says that whisk-and-swabbers was "the ... Grose (Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1785) states that swabbers are "the ..."

10. The Whist Table: A Treasury of Notes on the Royal Game by "Cavendish," C by Portland, Cavendish, Abraham S. Wilks (1894)
"played with what were called swabbers, which were possibly so termed, because they who had certain cards in their hand were entitled to take up a share of ..."

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