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By-blow   /baɪ-bloʊ/   Listen
noun
By-blow  n.  
1.
A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow. "With their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces."
2.
An illegitimate child; a bastard. "The Aga speedily... brought her (his disgraced slave) to court, together with her pretty by-blow, the present Padre Ottomano."





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"By-blow" Quotes from Famous Books



... without help of wars or bloodshed. At the first we all hailed it, as hardening the roads, which for a month had been nigh impassable: and either commander took speedy advantage of it—Hopton to make a swift diversion into Sussex and capture Arundel Castle (which was but a by-blow, for in a few weeks he had lost it again), and our own general to post up with his short, quick legs to London, where in two days he had wrung from Essex good reinforcements, with promise of pay for the troops and a ...
— Corporal Sam and Other Stories • A. T. Quiller-Couch


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