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Definition of Spicks
1. spick [n] - See also: spick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spicks
Literary usage of Spicks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illustrations of Irish History and Topography, Mainly of the Seventeenth by Caesar Litton Falkiner, Fynes Moryson, Josias Bodley, Luke Gernon, William Brereton, Albert Jouvin (1904)
"There were several rooms with no windows other than the ' spicks,' or loopholes,
... On the other hand ' spicks ' were fairly numerous, and the total of the ..."
2. Illustrations of Irish History and Topography: Mainly of the Seventeenth Century by Caesar Litton Falkiner, Fynes Moryson, Josias Bodley, Luke Gernon, William Brereton, Albert Jouvin (1904)
"There were several rooms with no windows other than the ' spicks," or loopholes,
intended for defensive purposes. The north-east tower, in which the Deputy ..."
3. Our Hispanic Southwest by Ernest Peixotto (1916)
"The Mexican men they despise and call "spicks." There is a rough crowd of
these "spicks" down by the Great Smelter that belches its volumes of yellow smoke ..."
4. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Gloucester by Thomas Rudge (1807)
"Thatching with helm straw, 5s. per square, including spicks and rope yarn: will
last thirty ... Thatching with common threshed straw, something less. spicks ..."
5. The Student by Isaac Sharpless, Watson W. Dewees (1887)
"... comes down from his lofty stand in a cedar tree by the open pasture and "
spicks, spicks " about in the borders of the wood, where his mate is hatching ..."
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