Meaning of quake-buttock | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of quakebuttock.

alt-of, alternative, obsolete, rare

Examples

“See what theſe times are grown to, before twenty / I ruſh'd into the world, which is indeed / Much like the Art of ſwiming, he that will attain to't / Muſt fall plump, and duck himſelf at firſt, / And that will make him hardy and advent'rous, / And not ſtand putting in one foot, and ſhiver, / And then draw t'other after, like a quake-buttock; [...]”

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