Lexicographical Neighbors of Runted
Literary usage of Runted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes Upon Least Squares and Geodesy: Prepared for Use in Cornell University by Charles Lee Crandall (1902)
"In comparing line measures, micrometer microscopes are runted on piers' ?u °St/lgla
frame lf conges in distance are frequently required and the difference ..."
2. "Cape Times" Law Reports: A Record of Every Matter Disposed of in the by South Africa Supreme Court (1908)
"... i/runted on the ground of adultery, t lie only proof» being communication of
ceni'real disease to plaintiff within a short time after the marriage ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"For in the north of England, a woman is said to be runted when she is fifty year»
old ; it being a question sometimes put to a son, " I* your mother runted ..."
4. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"For in the north of England, a woman is said to be runted when she is fifty years
old ; it being a question sometimes put to a son, " Is your mother runted ..."
5. The Origin of the English, Germanic, and Scandinavian Languages, and Nations by Joseph Bosworth (1848)
"... muk-gam that (runted zum o' the gente- fook. ... or oi dunner know what they
cawd it ; bur thev wor (runted wee Hester bout it ; an oi said, ..."
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