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Definition of Forestallers
1. forestaller [n] - See also: forestaller
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Forestallers
Literary usage of Forestallers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1900)
"Order against fishermen and forestallers. Also, that no fisherman being a burgess
be punished for any fault except by amercement; and that [only] when he ..."
2. A History of the English Poor Law: In Connection with the State of the by George Nicholls, Thomas Mackay (1898)
"... hospitals—Plan for parochial annuities—Regulation of wages and labour—Scarcity—Import
and export of corn—Repeal of laws against " forestallers," etc. ..."
3. History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC by Archibald Alison (1854)
"... the laws of the maximum, and against forestallers, had spread terror and
distrust as much among the middle classes, who had commenced the Revolution, ..."
4. Annals of Salem by Joseph Barlow Felt (1849)
"The selectmen and board of health give notice, that as forestallers residing in
the neighborhood, endeavor to prevent the market men from coming to Salem, ..."
5. A History of the British Empire in the Nineteenth Century by Marcus Robert Phipps Dorman (1902)
"CHAPTER XIII Pitt on reform in 1800—Rise in the price of food—Its true cause due
to expansion of the currency ?—The Brown Bread Bill—forestallers and ..."
6. Five Years in China: From 1842 to 1847 by Frederick Edwyn Forbes (1848)
"forestallers of Rice.—The Customs.—Local Officers.—Travelling—Want of
Fire-places.— Streets and Shops.—Bazaars.—Itinerant Traders.—Dentists. ..."
7. Local Records: Or, Historical Register of Remarkable Events, which Have by John Sykes (1833)
"... and, after obtaining a knowledge of the depositories of the forestallers of
potatoes, they sold them publicly at 5s. per load, and immense quantities ..."
8. Local Records; Or, Historical Register of Remarkable Events: Which Have by John Sykes (1833)
"... and, after obtaining a knowledge of the depositories of the forestallers of
potatoes, they sold them publicly at 5s. per load, and immense quantities ..."
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