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Definition of Osiery
1. n. An osier bed.
Definition of Osiery
1. Noun. An osier bed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Osiery
1. osier-work [n OSIERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Osiery
Literary usage of Osiery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Statistical Survey of the County of Armagh, with Observations on the Means by Charles Coote, Royal Dublin Society (1804)
"A good osiery, which is carefully attended, and the soil'perhaps not capable- of
any other ... I have seen an osiery in the vicinity of a good trading town, ..."
2. Statistical survey of the county of Armagh by Charles Coote (1804)
"A good osiery, which is carefully attended, and the soil "perhaps not capable of
any other ... I have seen an osiery in the vicinity of a good trading town, ..."
3. Who's who in America by John William Leonard, Albert Nelson Marquis (1906)
"... 111. ilso inventor of certain kinds of seamless osiery now in world-wide use.
Former rop'r of two Rep. newspaper«; originator nd prop'r of City Electric ..."
4. Representative British Dramas: Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"You wait ; that's not the worst of it. You know Brigstock. PHILIP. Do I? MR.
HUXTABLE. Oh, yes ; third man in the osiery. PHILIP. True. MR. HUXTABLE. ..."
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