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Definition of Frier
1. Noun. Flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying.
Definition of Frier
1. n. One who fries.
Definition of Frier
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of fryer) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frier
1. fryer [n -S] - See also: fryer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frier
Literary usage of Frier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Christendome, the Persian being stirred up thereunto by his onely meanes.
Whereupon the frier in termes thwarted Sir Anthonie, whose bloud already ..."
2. Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Peter Augustin Daniel by William Shakespeare, Peter Augustin Daniel (1874)
"Man. Heeres one, a friend, and one that knowes you well. frier. ... O comfortable
frier, where is my Lord ? I do remember well where I mould be : And there ..."
3. English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, Helen Child Sargent (1904)
"25 ' A boon, a boon, thou curtal frier, I beg it on my knee; Give me leave ...
26 ' That will I do,' said the curtal frier, 'Of thy blasts I have no doubt; ..."
4. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1901)
"One of his best arrows under his belt To the frier he let fly : The curtal frier
with his steel buckler Did put that arrow by. ' Shoot on, shoot on, ..."
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