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Wat

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A familiar name for a hare.

By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill,

Stands on his hinder legs, with listening ear.”


Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis.

 

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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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