Lexicographical Neighbors of Graithing
Literary usage of Graithing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"In bad graithing for 't,' in poor order for the undertaking. ... Don't make a
graithing for my coming,' do not make ' a spread ' on my account. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"... requisites, implements, appurtenances of a business or work, harness; graithing-
... bid her shoe her steed before An' a gowd graithing was behind. ..."
3. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"... bus-geraad, household goods and furniture, with which comp. Clevel. Tea-graithing
for ten-equipage at large. In OE writers the word seems often to ..."
4. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"See Tea graithing. A GRASS WIDOW, a female of easy virtue, a prostitute. A GREASE
HORN, a flatterer. The farmers have a cow's horn, filled with grease, ..."
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