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[Aus] J. Rogers New Rush 45: Among his lubras, dogs, and bantlings, mix’d.
at bantling, n.
[Aus] J. Rogers New Rush 45: Translated to the dell of darkiedom, / We find the population all ‘at home’.
at -dom, sfx
[Aus] J. Rogers New Rush 46: The females would be comely looking gins, / Were not their limbs so much like rolling-pins.
at gin, n.1
[Aus] J. Rogers New Rush 49: Some days ago a sturdy hatter join’d / His wife and boy at table.
at hatter, n.1
[Aus] J. Rogers New Rush 51: And oft a duffer-dealing digger there / Will nobblerize in jerks of small despair.
at nobblerize (v.) under nobbler, n.3
[Aus] J. Rogers New Rush Pt II 28: A note’s so very trifling, it’s no sooner chang’d than gone; For it is but twenty shillings.
at note, n.2
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