Meaning of abstrude | Babel Free

Definitions

To thrust away.

obsolete, transitive

Examples

“Thus it is with regard to the elementary substance of fire; dispensed, perhaps, to every thing corporeal, but hid deepest in those substances which are most densely compacted. It is intimately abstruded in what poetical licence terms the Veins of Flint; […]”

“.[…] the Greeks, while they retained the purity of their language, did not, any more than the Latins, rhyme their verse, but on the contrary (Mr. Swift's very words) 'abstruded the rhyme from it by metre and quantity.'”

“In winter, owing to the great amount of water poured into the sea, and the less amount abstruded by evaporation, the water stands some ten or twelve feet higher than at other times.”

“The Golek". A hexagonal roll, with a row of teeth, about six inches long, abstruding from each of the sides of the hexagon; or a serrated board in place of the teeth. This implement is used in some districts instead of the plough or “chankol.””

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