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Heer  n.  A yarn measure of six hundred yards or 1/24 of a spindle. See Spindle.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Heer" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mister Hal, anyhow,' said the old creature. 'You was allus a liberal 'un, you was. But as to what Tom could 'a dun with the carpus, I'm allus heer'd that you may dew anythink with any-think, if you on'y ...
— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton

... Amon, which is contrary to what we know of the history of the province. Just as Onu of the south (Erment) preceded Thebes as the most important town in that district, so Montu had been its most honoured god. Heer Wiedemann thinks the name related to that of Amon and derived from it, with the addition ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... characteristic is the idea that, however truculent and menacing a writer's expressions may be, other people do him and his country a wicked injustice if they take him at his word. A good instance of this occurs in "Ein starkes Volk—Ein starkes Heer," by Kurd v. Strantz, published in 1914, shortly before the war. This writer quotes (or rather misquotes) with ...
— Gems (?) of German Thought • Various

... corals, but were entirely barren of plants and insects. In Switzerland, on the other hand, deposits of the same age have been discovered, remarkable for their botanical and entomological treasures. We are indebted to Professor Heer, of Zurich, for the description, restoration, and classification of several hundred species and varieties of these fossil plants, the whole of which he has illustrated by excellent figures in his "Flora Tertiaria Helvetiae." ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... but it seems a useless thing our goin' up to the oak. I know the Cap' sayed we were to wait for them under it. Why cant we just as well stay heer? 'Taint like they'll be long now. They wont dally a minute, I know, after they've clutched the shiners, an' I guess they got 'em most as soon as we'd secured these pair o' petticoats. Besides they'll come quicker than we've done, seeing as they're ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

... to law about it, and all Punkin Centre turned out to heer the trial. Wall, after Jim Lawson had heered both sides of the case, he sed: "The Cort is compelled, from the evidence sot forth in this case, to find for the plaintiff, the aforesaid Silas Pettingill, ...
— Uncles Josh's Punkin Centre Stories • Cal Stewart



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