Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small drain.
- A Middle English form of
throne . - noun Same as
tron , 1. - noun A market or market-place.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A throne.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A small drain.
- noun Prov. Eng. A steelyard.
- noun Scot. A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused.
- noun [Scot.] a weight equivalent to nineteen and a half pounds.
- noun a weight formerly used in Scotland, in which a pound varied from 21 to 28 ounces avoirdupois.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect A
steelyard . - noun UK, dialect, Scotland, obsolete A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar.
- noun obsolete, UK, dialect A small
drain .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Il trone sous les fesses du Bisounours qu'elle m'avait offert aussi!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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C'est pourkoi sur son bureau trone une tirelire en ferraille cochon fermée par un cadenas dans laquelle il met la monnaie qu'il lui arrive d'avoir sur lui pour differente raison!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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Marie Stuart, sa petite fille, chassee, de son trone, fugitive en Angleterre, ayant langui dix-huit ans en prison, se vit condamnee a mort par des juges Anglais, et eut la tete tranchee.
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Ben la spareil le pov ', on s'en fout de sa gueule puisque le trone c'est pas pour lui mais pour sa soeur!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Jacques, son fils, septieme du nom, et deuxieme en Angleterre, fut chasse de ses trois royaumes; et pour comble de malheur on contesta a son fils sa naissance; le fils ne tenta de remonter sur le trone de ces peres, que pour faire perir ses amis par des bourreaux; et nous avons vu le Prince Charles
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Theie parte yor trone [147], and sete at your ryghte honde.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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And seyde, ` O lord, that set art in thy trone, 1175
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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For Helge og Hroar måtte den eneste vej til deres fædrene trone gå gennem kamp; deraf opstod da sagnet on hævn over Frode.
The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries Oscar Ludvig Olson
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Upponne the trone [58] I sette thee, helde thie crowne;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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At last, Mahommed, the Second, came to the trone, as the Sultan of Turkey.
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