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1.
smīting(e
ger.
Additional spellings:
smitinge
55 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The action of striking; beating [a few quots. in (a) may belong to (d)]; (b) the action of the beating of waves, the shaking of a sieve, the playing of a musical instrument, the plucking of a…
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