| Summary: | one one day under -- --10, whatever the age may be. These three words, one day under, meant that you were not quite a certain age but you would be in the very near future. It did not mean that one more day and you would be ten years old or whatever the age may be, but that within the month you would reach this age people were referring to. [sic] . . . " John is just one day under sixteen, then he'll be a man". Sixteen was considered the magic age to growing up, where a boy was concerned, when he reached that age he was a man. He then had to do a mans work . . . DNE-cit JH 10/71 Used I and Sup Used I 4 Used I
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