Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A draw-plate, or the aperture in such a plate through which wire is drawn.
- noun One of a series of metal collars through which a cylinder or plug of lead is sometimes drawn in the manufacture of lead pipe.
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Examples
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This odd, rough love-story, as harshly-sweet as wortle-berries, as dry and stiff in its beauty as purple heather-sprays, is the most purely human, the only tender interest of Wuthering Heights.
Emily Brontë 1900
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--- Hout, it will just be to get crane-berries, or wortle-berries, or some such stuff, out of the moss, to make the pies and tarts for the feast on Monday.
The Black Dwarf 1898
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I cried, jumping up from the table, my eight-hour wortle straining against a full stomach.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I cried, jumping up from the table, my eight-hour wortle straining against a full stomach.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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