dish out
Example Sentences
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A besom whiskit by my lug, An' dishclouts half-a-score: Catch me again, tho' fidgin' fain, At kissin 'hint the door.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
It is a most just idea: to be sure, Sandys and Rushout, and their fellows, are dishclouts, if dishclouts there are in the world: and now to lace them!
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter
The scraping of trenchers you think would put a man to no charges: it is not a hundred pound a year would serve the scullion in dishclouts.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
