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Definition of Bantams
1. bantam [n] - See also: bantam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bantams
Literary usage of Bantams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Poultry by Lewis Wright (1885)
"For convenience, we shall take the various breeds of bantams as known to us
alphabetically, reserving the large and important division of Game bantams for a ..."
2. The Poultry Book: Comprising the Breading and Management of Profitable and by William Bernhard Tegetmeier (1867)
"bantams of all kinds are merely domesticated ... Two of the most distinct kinds,
namely, the Sebright and the Game bantams, have been produced within the ..."
3. Poultry Culture: How to Raise, Manage, Mate and Judge Thoroughbred Fowls by Isaac Kimbal Felch (1902)
"GAME bantams. One has only to follow the rule given for Games, taking care to
secure the ... Our bantams lose station badly, as they grow small in size. ..."
4. Rural Affairs by John Jacob Thomas (1863)
"... own bantams are generally and with much probability assigned. The very term
Bantam, a town and district of Java, is sufficient to establish the fact. ..."
5. The Practical Poultry Keeper by Lewis Wright (1904)
"Length of feather, if in decent condition, will naturally be the chief point in
judging. CHAPTER XXII. bantams. THERE is not the slightest reason for ..."
6. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... by Captaine Severson, a Dutchman, and the King of bantams circumcision, and
pompous Triumphes. .He same day towards Evening, we descried our Ships ..."
7. The Nursery by Fanny P Seaverns, John L. Shorey (Firm (1874)
"HORSE AND THE bantams. SOME years ago, among my fowls I had a pair of bantams,
which took a great fancy to a large black horse. ..."
8. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... by Captaine Severson, a Dutchman, and the King of bantams circumcision, and
pompous Triumphes. IHe same day towards Evening, we descried our Ships ..."
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