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Definition of Sluffing
1. sluff [v] - See also: sluff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluffing
Literary usage of Sluffing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1845)
"... with our boots dangling round the chair-legs, at the same old table, sluffing
our jacket with the good things that used to was; just what we can't now, ..."
2. The Public Domain and Democracy: A Study of Social, Economic and Political by Robert Tudor Hill (1910)
"The sluffing-off of property qualifications for the electorate was accompanied
at this early period by a similar tendency in the case of office holders. ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1890)
"On the north wall of a canyon, high up above the valley floor, in the San Rafael
Swell, Southeast of Price and Cleveland, Utah, a sluffing off of the rock ..."
4. Chambers's Information for the People by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1875)
"To make a sluffing.—Roast veal, fowls, turkey, and some other meats require stuffing.
These stuffings have been alluded to in various receipts in the ..."
5. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1847)
"... through the machine ; n, и, is the main steam-pipe, from -which branch oil'
small copper tubes, o, o, £c., which conduct the steam through sluffing- ..."
6. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon (1874)
"The hemp packing of this sluffing box is greatly preferable to the leathers of
a piston, as giving less friction, being much cheaper, more durable, ..."
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