riddles n
riddle n Where it will take sixty pickets for one length [of] the rail, one rail - a length we calls it - but one rail makes a length -that would be three posts - it would take a hundred and twenty riddles. Well now a picket would be anywhere from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, and the r...
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| Summary: | riddle n Where it will take sixty pickets for one length [of] the rail, one rail - a length we calls it - but one rail makes a length -that would be three posts - it would take a hundred and twenty riddles. Well now a picket would be anywhere from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, and the riddle would be about threequarters - anywhere from a half to threequarters of an inch; he ['d] be that much smaller. Yes DNE-cit J.WIDDOSON [-]=C30[-] Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I [see 'wrigilens', etc.] The only part of the cited quotation used in the dictionary is: "One rail [with three posts] would take a hundred and twenty riddles" |
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