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Definition of Blethers
1. blether [v] - See also: blether
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blethers
Literary usage of Blethers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pat M'Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting by John Stevenson (1905)
"There's no an ill the deevil sends 'Twixt bonnet and shoe leathers, Nae ache or
pain atween these ends But can be cur'd by blethers. ..."
2. Pat M'Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting by John Stevenson (1903)
"There's no an ill the deevil sends 'Twixt bonnet and shoe leathers, Nae ache or
pain atween these ends But can be cur'd by blethers. ..."
3. Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1888)
"Up the Nith, and down the Ken, An' cross the Moss o' Cree wi' them ; Tie their
blethers to their tails, An' o'er the Brig o' Dee wi' them. ..."
4. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1888)
"Up the Nith, and down the Ken, An' cross the Moss o' Cree wi' them ; Tie their
blethers to their tails, An" o'er the Brig o' Dee wi' them. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... Indies — and didna this cratur' cry oot ' Stap yer blethers ? 'just ahint the
minister, wha gied sic a loup, and thocht it a cunning device o' Satan ! ..."
6. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"An' baith a yellow George to claim, An' thole their blethers!. . Ep. to J* R.
/g. ... But stringing blethers up in rhyme The Authors Cry and Prayer. ..."
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