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Definition of Swabby
1. swabbie [n -BIES] - See also: swabbie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swabby
Literary usage of Swabby
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"To surhed a stone is to set it edgewise, contrary to the posture it held in the
quarry.—Halliwell. SWAB, SQUAB, a soft cushion. See SQUAB. swabby, fat ..."
2. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery: By the Right Hon by Nicholas Simons, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Leach, Anthony Hart, Lancelot Shadwell, Richard Torin Kindersley (1848)
"SWABEY D. swabby. to inquire and state what real estates she was seised, possessed
of, or entitled unto at her death; and whether any and what charges or ..."
3. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1905)
"... my own just debts, funeral swabby, expenses *and other legacies having been
first discharged, I leave [ *H7 ] to my dear godson, Henry Swabey, ..."
4. The Law Times (1876)
"303 swabby v. GOLDIE— Will — Construction — Life estates to children in equal
moieties — Reminder to children's i-wme 306 ft ..."
5. Australia: With Notes by the Way, on Egypt, Ceylon, Bombay, and the Holy Land by Frederick James Jobson (1862)
"... while in front of the entrance were seated black, swabby eunuchs, in their
purple, green, and scarlet dresses, lounging on cushions, and waited on by ..."
6. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"swabby, fat, corpulent. SWAD, SWOD, coarse coal or black stone when it occurs at
the bottom of a seam of coal. When at the top it is called brat. ..."
7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"To surhed a stone is to set it edgewise, contrary to the posture it held in the
quarry.—Halliwell. SWAB, SQUAB, a soft cushion. See SQUAB. swabby, fat ..."
8. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery: By the Right Hon by Nicholas Simons, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Leach, Anthony Hart, Lancelot Shadwell, Richard Torin Kindersley (1848)
"SWABEY D. swabby. to inquire and state what real estates she was seised, possessed
of, or entitled unto at her death; and whether any and what charges or ..."
9. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1905)
"... my own just debts, funeral swabby, expenses *and other legacies having been
first discharged, I leave [ *H7 ] to my dear godson, Henry Swabey, ..."
10. The Law Times (1876)
"303 swabby v. GOLDIE— Will — Construction — Life estates to children in equal
moieties — Reminder to children's i-wme 306 ft ..."
11. Australia: With Notes by the Way, on Egypt, Ceylon, Bombay, and the Holy Land by Frederick James Jobson (1862)
"... while in front of the entrance were seated black, swabby eunuchs, in their
purple, green, and scarlet dresses, lounging on cushions, and waited on by ..."
12. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"swabby, fat, corpulent. SWAD, SWOD, coarse coal or black stone when it occurs at
the bottom of a seam of coal. When at the top it is called brat. ..."
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