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Definition of Sluffs
1. sluff [v] - See also: sluff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluffs
Literary usage of Sluffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Alabama Student and Other Biographical Essays by William Osler (1908)
"lo.1 A great running through ye hollow pipe, two or three sluffs. ... Some sluffs.
Injection made and a hollow pipe put in, after most of ye ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"... adj. inclined to be indolent ; slow to determine. Sloughi. See under sluffs.
... sluffs, or Sloughs, s. pi. the skins of ..."
3. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"sluffs, the skins of all such fruit as gooseberries Fish that are flabby and out
of season are said and currants are called sluffs or sloughs. ..."
4. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"sluffs, the skins of all such fruit as gooseberries and currants are called sluffs
or sloughs. SLUSH, puddle, slime. " Slushy roads. ..."
5. Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Albert Bushnell Hart (1892)
"Other staple exports were whale products, bread-sluffs, naval stores, masts, and
pig-iron. The total value of exports in 1750 is estimated at .£814000. ..."
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