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- noun Plural form of
neat .
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Examples
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(OK, there were a couple of "neats" in his CES speech.)
A Goodbye to Gates 2008
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They would have to take a newspaper from the middle of stack and would ruin the neats stacks I made.
Hickey remarks vanish (revised) EAGEAGEAG 2009
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I has randums pichure thingy frum wordpres! neats.
Don’t use dis kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Take a cold roast capon and cut it into thin slices square and small, (or any other roast meat as chicken, mutton, veal, or neats tongue) mingle with it a little minced taragon and an onion, then mince lettice as small as the capon, mingle all together, and lay it in the middle of a clean scoured dish.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Mohammed Dey (1720), getting into a passion with the French consul, exclaimed with more frankness than courtesy: "My mother sold sheeps 'feet, and my father sold neats' tongues, but they would have been ashamed to expose for sale so worthless a tongue as thine."
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole
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They should then be taken down and rubbed over with a composition of bees'-wax, tallow, and neats-foot oil, [N] and again hung up to allow the grease to sink into the leather.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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Rabelais indulges his spirit of sensuality in wine, in dried neats 'tongues, in Bologna sausages, in Botorgas.
Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 William Frederick Poole
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Thus also you may do heifers 'udders, oxe-cheeks, or neats-tongues, being first tender broild or roasted.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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And when they stopped for rest at the sign of a bush upon a pole, how they would fall to upon the Martinmas beef, the neats-tongues, the cheesecakes!
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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I was now resolved to break through all measures to get away; and after sitting down to a monstrous breakfast of cold beef, mutton, neats 'tongues, venison-pasty, and stale-beer, took leave of the family.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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