Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In carpentry, same as intertie.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Carp.) An intertie.

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  • noun construction An intertie.
  • verb Eye dialect spelling of introduce.

Etymologies

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Compare French entre-deux, literally, between two.

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Examples

  • Well, th 'bunch sorta interduced, or tried t' interduce, Old John

    Injun and Whitey to the Rescue William S. Hart

  • There don't none of 'em speak no English but me, and all I can do is to interduce you, and tell 'em that you ain't no spy, and that you are very sorry you ever ran up agin this here town.

    The Adventures of a Boy Reporter Harry Steele Morrison

  • Hamilton, lemme interduce you -- fren 'the family -- ole fren' the guv'ner's -- works in the yards.

    The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

  • The doctor says it will be no use trying to interduce our stuff there, and we might as well leave there in the morning and go over to Bairdstown, which was a little place about ten miles off the railroad, and make our start there.

    Danny's Own Story 1912

  • Hamilton, lemme interduce you -- fren 'the family -- ole fren' the guv'ner's -- works in the yards.

    The Jungle 1906

  • Of course me an 'Peter,' aving made your fortin, drop out altogether, but I dessay we shall look in agin in about six months 'time, and then perhaps the landlady will interduce us to you.'

    Light Freights 1903

  • I had any right to interduce outside matters not connected with what we were talkin 'about.

    Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life Charles Felton Pidgin 1883

  • Mr. Simmons meekly obeyed: "Mr.. Barringer, let me interduce you to Mr. Leon of St. Louis, of the house of Draper & Mercer."

    Not Pretty, but Precious Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford 1878

  • "Mr. Golyer," said the young lady, "let me interduce you to my friend, Mr. Leon."

    Not Pretty, but Precious Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford 1878

  • I ain't a goin 'to interduce our Mattie to no sich blokes as him.

    Stephen Archer and Other Tales George MacDonald 1864

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