dithers

Example Sentences

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It also had problems: Young constantly complained that tithers were giving him "the worst of their animals," Turner says.

From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2015

This week he and several hundred fellow tithers will go into a 230-acre field to harvest approximately 5,060 bushels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Small tithers: people who did not pay their full tithes.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

Old age is just like a hobble that tithers up stiff-jinted old cattle to the home post and keeps 'em from a-roving.

From Rose of Old Harpeth by Daviess, Maria Thompson

There is a much larger proportion of tithers among them than among the Christians in the States.

From Brazilian Sketches by Ray, T. B. (T. Bronson)