spurt
spurt n This meant a short time This could be a short period of sickness meaning about a week or a short period of weather, which may be good or bad lasting two or three days. A Spurt of mild weather would be two weeks which would then be refered to as, "a spurt", or "farth-night"...
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| Language: | English |
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1971
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/47679 |
| Summary: | spurt n This meant a short time This could be a short period of sickness meaning about a week or a short period of weather, which may be good or bad lasting two or three days. A Spurt of mild weather would be two weeks which would then be refered to as, "a spurt", or "farth-night" meaning two weeks. Therefore Spurt could mean from a few days to two weeks. JH 10/71 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used spirt, spell, run, time. |
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