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Definition of Childer
1. child [n] - See also: child
Lexicographical Neighbors of Childer
Literary usage of Childer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lancashire Lyrics: Modern Songs and Ballads of the County Palatine by John Harland (1866)
"GOD bless these poor wimmen that's childer ! ... Hur face is surrounded wi' joy,
Hoo's dealing o th' childer a fist full, Un' plenty on table t' put by. ..."
2. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1875)
"Let us not be still as childer that be wavering and wilbe caried hyder and ...
from one opinion to another, as childer ar caried with an apple, ..."
3. Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"... TO THI childer AN' ME. [Edwin Waugh, born at Rochdale, Jan. 2», 1817. ...
to thi childer an' me. When aw put little Sally to bed, Hoo cried 'cose her ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1803)
"... be making it a crime to a poor man to sell his little matter of yarn fur his
wife aud childer after two o'clock, when he did not know it was contrary to ..."
5. Aroun' the Boreens: A Little Book of Celtic Verse by Agnes Ita Hanrahan (1913)
"Ay, I mind the childer ... Ay, an' pink in Foxglove Glen; But who be the wide-eyed
childer,— Ay, who be the grey-beard men? ai ..."
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