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Sharp-set

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Hungry. A term in falconry. (See Hawk.)

“If anie were so sharpe-set as to eat fried flies, buttered bees, stued snails, either on Fridaie or Sundaie, he could not be therefore indicted of haulte treason.”—Stanihurst: Ireland, p. 10 (1580).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Shandygaff
Shanks Nag
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Shanty
Shanty Songs
Shark
Sharp (Becky)
Sharp
Sharp-beak
Sharp-set
Shave
Shaveling
Shaving
She Stoops to Conquer
Shear Steel
Sheb-seze
Sheba (Queen of)
Shebeen
Sheep
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