Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sort of blue or black clay lying near a bed of coal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sort of blue or black clay lying near a vein of coal.
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- noun A sort of
blue orblack clay lying near avein ofcoal .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There was a short breakfast fl urry and a two-hour lunch rush and plenty of dead space, when the four employees, all blacks, talked, horsed around, brooded, and smoked.
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So I bolted off, an' in sich a 'urry, that I left both my crutches behind, so as now I ain't got no tools to vork vith.
James Catnach, Ballad-monger, Part 2 Steve 2009
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What kind of quality can we expect to see from this? fanboy_d the uk needs to urry up starscream9289
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Although we'll have to 'urry as I don't want to miss the penalty competition.
In your dreams ladies Ms Robinson 2008
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Coppins, wiping his forehead, "because you don't want to be moving that again in a 'urry."
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Coppins, wiping his forehead, "because you don't want to be moving that again in a 'urry."
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An 'yer'd best' urry, afore 'e starts operatin' 'cos' e won't stop fer nothin 'then, not you ner me, ner Gawd is self Runcorn thanked her and went back to the street to look for a hansom,
A Funeral In Blue Perry, Anne, 1938- 2001
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If we are upstairs she hails us from below with such expressions as 'Come on, now, it's getting cold,' or, 'I won't bring it in till you're all' ere, so mind you 'urry.'
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"Pleeceman 'e says to me -- when' e come up to our place all 'urry-scurry to see after me goin' forth again the enemy -- 'e says, 'A man as _is_ a man' as got to put 'is' and to the plough now an 'save' is country, while yet there is time. '"
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 Various
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If you don't 'urry you won't get it on before the race starts.'
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 Various
ruzuzu commented on the word urry
"A sort of blue or black clay lying near a bed of coal."
--Century Dictionary
November 29, 2010