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Fraying   Listen
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Fraying  n.  (Zool.) The skin which a deer frays from his horns.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fraying" Quotes from Famous Books



... ripping, simply lift the presser-foot, turn the goods around, place the presser-foot down again and sew back over the same seam again, and sew about half an inch more. It makes a neat finish and no danger of the hem ever fraying out. ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... piece of hemp rope may be used. To protect the ends from fraying a scout should know how to "whip" them. The commonest method ...
— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America

... bend in him like a dead Clown, and had no command whatever of himself until he was put quite flat upon the soles of his feet, when he became animated as by a miracle, and moving edgewise that he might go in a narrower compass and be in less danger of fraying the gold lace on his epaulettes by brushing them against anything, advanced with a smiling visage to salute ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

... walls above the wainscoting were hung great hatchments, the canvas of some fraying away from the black quadrangular frames after a lapse of years, and none of them very recently hung there. The front of the pew was open to the chancel, and commanded a full view of the reading-desk and a side glimpse of the ...
— The Squire's Daughter - Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons • Archibald Marshall



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