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When bows and arrows, and, later, muzzle-loading "fukes" were the only weapons, no more buffalo were killed than could actually be utilized.
Blackfoot Lodge Tales George Bird Grinnell 1893
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(pl. noun) - (1) The hair.
--Roger Wilbraham's Glossary of Some Words Used in Cheshire, 1826
(2) Feak, a dangling curl of hair.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1901
(3) Counter-cunning, craft used by the adverse legal party.
--John Kersey's New English Dictionary, 1772
January 14, 2018