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Deʹpinges (2 syl.)

or Deepʹings. A breadth of netting to be sewed on a hoddy (net) to make it sufficiently large. Sometimes the breadth is called a depth, and the act of sewing one depth on another is called deepening the net. In 1574 the Dutch settlers at Yarmouth were required “to provide themselves with twine and depinges in foreign places.”

 

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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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Denys (St.)
Deo Gratias (Latin)
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Deo Volente
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Depart
Department
Dependence
Depinges
Deputations
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Derive
Dernier Ressort (French)
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