Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Obsolete spelling of
bloat .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
cure (herrings, etc.) bysalting andsmoking them; tobloat .
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Examples
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Die blote feit dat ek in besit is en aangehaal het uit Rubin se publikasie sou onder Apartheid beteken het dat ek self in die tronk sou beland het.
SPEECH BY ANNELIZ� VAN WYK DURING THE STATE OF THE NATION DEBATE 2004
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Wanneer EK dus praat van versoening en van respek vir al die tale en kulture van die land, is dit nie, soos dikwels beeer word, 'n blote indiwiduele standpunt nie.
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Die blote feit dat ek 'n taal van ons land kan gebruik wat U
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Die blote feit dat ek 'n taal van ons land kan gebruik wat U Majesteit maklik verstaan, dui op die uitgebreide bande wat sedert eeue tussen ons twee land bestaan - bande, nie net op taal en kulturele terrein nie, maar oor die hele spektrum van die Suid - Afrikaanse samelewing.
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"I have more smoke in my mouth than would blote a hundred herrings."
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 12: September/October 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668
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"I have more smoke in my mouth than would blote a hundred herrings."
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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"I have more smoke in my mouth than would blote a hundred herrings."
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Apple laat iPad-app met blote borsten toe - Eindelijk!
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"De grote blote vrouw" (The big nude woman) Dutch animation series with English translation.
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Purno de Purno 4-02 De grote blote vrouw (The big nude woman)
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tim_retep commented on the word blote
To dry and smoke; as, to blote herrings
July 31, 2009