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Definition of Drownded
1. drownd [v] - See also: drownd
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drownded
Literary usage of Drownded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"inquired the waiter, " Why, the milk will be drownded."'—Nicholas Nickleby, ist ed.
ch. vp 35. ' Where everything is either scorched up with the sun, ..."
2. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come Delivered by John Bunyan (1896)
"... s things which, as I believe now, would have (had I continued in them still)
drownded me in perdition and destruction. Chr. What things were they? Hope. ..."
3. Portland in the Past by William Goold (1886)
"Harmon and the officers Judge, that by the modestes Computation besides the Scalps
and Captives they brought in, what they killd and drownded there could ..."
4. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"... g) for Emlin (Emeline), or Hambling for Hameline (Hamon). D, an excrescence
after n. Cf. ribbon and riband, and the provincial drownded for drowned, ..."
5. Dombey and Son. by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848)
""And he 's drownded, Beauty, an't he ?" said the Captain, in a soothing voice.
... drownded. An't he ?" And always waited for her answer, in which the great ..."
6. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1877)
"drownded, to drown. ' He was drownded in Keadby canol owor thirty year sin'. ...
drownded mutton, the flesh of sheep which have been drowned. ..."
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