Lexicographical Neighbors of Curdler
Literary usage of Curdler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"... a churn-staff, if a churn-curdler, the name of the vessel being also applied
to its contents; Mid. The Wh. Gl. has the same compound, with a different ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Blood boat (naval), a "tally boat" or bumboat, a boat employed to carry provisions
from the shore. Blood-curdler (society), a story of murder likely to make ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1889)
"Whatever the cause (which also, by the by, may be personal to myself), it is the
fact that the professional blood-curdler much more often leaves my blood ..."
4. Edward Bulwer, First Baron Lytton of Knebworth: A Social, Personal, and by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1910)
"... of the modern supernatural and as a real " blood-curdler." To pass to another
phase of this many-sided, indefatigable industry. ..."
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