Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A servant or retainer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A domestic servant; a retainer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
domestic ; aservant orretainer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But: a story like that you could tell with images rather than a complete explanation of the plot … hewe on Apr 22, 2008
Worth Watching - April 15: The Children of Huang Shi Trailer « FirstShowing.net 2008
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February 12, 2008 at 12:37 pm i iz new hewe, sumwon hewp me wern to speke in youw wanguage?
mapquest - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And then go a step further to argue them? hewe,this here family is competing to see who will loose it first,Minega u r currently winning the race...
Can you dig it? Minzo 2005
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One is to thrust a knife into the fire, or any way to touch the fire with a knife, or with their knife to take flesh out of the cauldron, or to hewe with an hatchet neare vnto the fire.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Thei hewe or choppe no maner of thing by the fire, leasse by any maner of meanes, thei might fortune to hurte the thing which alway they haue in reuerence, and iudge to be the clenser, and purifier of al thinges.
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Thei are all by nature blacke of hewe: euen so died in their mothers wombe acordyng to the disposicion of the fathers nature, whose siede also is blacke: as like wise in the
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One is to thrust a knife into the fire, or any way to touch the fire with a knife, or with their knife to take flesh out of the cauldron, or to hewe with an hatchet neare vnto the fire.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And albeit the king of Spaine be the richest prince in Christendome, yet can he neither draw cables, hewe masts, nor make pouder out of his mettals, but is to be supplied of them all from thence.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And schewi hweþer vnker beo. of briht {er} hewe. of fayrur bleo.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Reynolde beriston, Sire william tracy, Sire Richard breton, and sire hewe morley.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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