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[UK] Shrewsbury Chron. 12 Dec. 7/2: Hark to Philemon’s high and heavenly strains! / It’s him I’ll chaunt, it’s him that I admire.
at chant, v.
[UK] Shrewsbury Chron. 20 July 6/6: John Beddow, bailiff, was examined, who proved that and two others of his ‘fellow shoulder clappers’ had [...] seized the clock in question, and with the usual rapacity his craft, bore it away.
at shoulder-clapper (n.) under shoulder, n.
[UK] Shrewsbury Chron. 11 Dec. 3/: Although all the military men connected with the case are in full ‘war paint, the lawyers are in ‘mufti’.
at war-paint (n.) under war, n.
[UK] Shrewsbury Chron. 23 May 5/5: A befitting bustle, flounced cashmere dress, a sky-scraper or coal-scuttle bonnet.
at sky-scraper, n.1
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