Word: peeler
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hang such mud, anyway! Three cheers for the house on the right, 750 times! Ditto for house on left, 700 times! Ladies in the balcony fifty each! Ladies with Roman candles, three! Contemplative peeler on left, one! Bully for the man who treated to coffee...
...ushered by a peeler...
...there is one thing I hate more than another, - I say thing, as the word seems most appropriate, - it is a blue-coat, a peeler, a cop. I know not by what name that noble enforcer of the laws, that preserver of the country's peace, is best known to you; but never mind its name, perhaps it has none, the label may have dropped off. I was never well acquainted with these queer specimens until I came to college, but there I found the true article, the Cambridgeport peeler; this very fascinating individual interrupted, one Sunday afternoon, a quiet...
...broke a peeler's head...
...peeler's voice was sadly sweet...