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Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
Created on 2005-05-06 07:03:47 (#7027502), last updated 2009-06-09
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AboutLimerick (LIM-uh-rik) adjective & noun - early 19th century.
[The chief town of County Limerick, Ireland.]
A adjective
1 Designating gloves of fine leather formerly made at Limerick, early 19th century.
2 Designating (the pattern of) a fish-hook in which the wire is bent abruptly through a large angle behind the barb but thereafter is bent more shallowly to the point at which it continues as the straight shank, early 19th century.
3 Designating a type of embroidered lace originally made at Limerick, mid-19th century.
B noun
1 A Limerick fish-hook, mid-19th century.
2 Limerick lace, late 19th century.
3 A humorous or comic five-line stanza with the rhyme scheme aabba, there being three feet in the a lines and two in the b lines, late 19th century.
[The chief town of County Limerick, Ireland.]
A adjective
1 Designating gloves of fine leather formerly made at Limerick, early 19th century.
2 Designating (the pattern of) a fish-hook in which the wire is bent abruptly through a large angle behind the barb but thereafter is bent more shallowly to the point at which it continues as the straight shank, early 19th century.
3 Designating a type of embroidered lace originally made at Limerick, mid-19th century.
B noun
1 A Limerick fish-hook, mid-19th century.
2 Limerick lace, late 19th century.
3 A humorous or comic five-line stanza with the rhyme scheme aabba, there being three feet in the a lines and two in the b lines, late 19th century.
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