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| | Dictionary of Americanisms, by John Russell Bartlett (1848) |
 | | I have heard this old word used by some persons here in the compound term cream-poke; that is, a small bag through which cream is strained.--Pickering. |
 | | This piano was sort o' fiddle like--only bigger,--and with a powerful heap of wire strings. |
 | | The child, Margaret, sits in the door of her house, on a low stool, with a small wheel, winding spools, in our vernacular quilling.--Margaret, p. |
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