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A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. |
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To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on
the door. |
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To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. |
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To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the
pattern, so as to facilitate its removal. |
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A quick, smart blow; a knock. |
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To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. |
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To hasten. |
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To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport
out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into
admiration. |
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To exchange; to truck. |
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A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a
half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any
coin of trifling value. |