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Definition of Earpicks
1. earpick [n] - See also: earpick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earpicks
Literary usage of Earpicks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"... toothpick», and earpicks ; bracelets and armlets, earrings and necklaces ;
buckles and brooches, rings and seals ; studs and battons, l'it/l'ii; ..."
2. Pye's Surgical Handicraft: A Manual of Surgical Manipulations, Minor Surgery by Walter Pye (1893)
"earpicks should be especially avoided, for severe injuries are often caused by
these instruments, which, in the form of metal probes, hairpins, bodkins, ..."
3. Japan at First Hand: Her Islands, Their People, the Picturesque, the Real by Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke (1918)
"... smaller bronze Buddhas and figurines and big bells and charms and dainty
implements and adornments of queens—combs, hairpins— even earpicks. ..."
4. The Archaeological Journal by Council, British Archaeological Association, Central Committee (1855)
"In both we find small shears and tweezers, with earpicks attached; ornamented
discs of bone, and a multiplicity of bronze buckles, remains of fibulae and ..."
5. The Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the by François Pyrard, Pierre de Bergeron, Jérôme Bignon (1887)
"... these are all beautifully fitted with little pendants, such as toothpicks,
earpicks, and other instruments. The corsairs wear the beard shaved, ..."
6. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1875)
"... toothpicks, and earpicks ; bracelet» and armlets, earrings and necklaces;
buckles and brooches, rings and seals ; studs and buttons, bullae, ..."
7. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1872)
"Tweezers and earpicks on rings, in one instance accompanied by a little two-barrelled
silver box. Thirty-four denarii, ranging from Vitellius to Macrinus. ..."
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