Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A low stool.
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Examples
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"Here's your daddie, bairns," said the gudewife ganging till the door; but i 'place o' their daddie, a tall chiel wrappit i 'a big cloak, rushed like a fire flaught into the bield, and drappit doun on the sunkie ewest the ingle droghling and coghling.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various
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Mony a day hae I wrought my stocking and sat on my sunkie under that saugh. '
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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Mony a day hae I wrought my stocking and sat on my sunkie under that saugh. '
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Mony a day hae I wrought my stocking and sat on my sunkie under that saugh. '
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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mony a day hae I wrought my stocking, and sat on my sunkie under that saugh.
Chapter XXII 1917
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Mony a day hae I wrought my stocking and sat on my sunkie under that saugh.’
Guy Mannering 1815
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