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Heronshaw

Heronshaw \Her"on*shaw\, n. [OF. heroncel, dim. of h['e]ron. See Heron.] (Zo["o]l.) A heron. [Written variously hernshaw, harnsey, etc.]

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heronshaw

n. (alternative form of heronsew English)

Usage examples of "heronshaw".

These are a few of the things used at the banquet: three hundred quarters of wheat, three hundred tuns of ale, one hundred and four tuns of wine, eighty oxen, three thousand geese, two thousand pigs,--four thousand conies, four thousand heronshaws, four thousand venison pasties cold and five hundred hot, four thousand cold tarts, four thousand cold custards, eight seals, four porpoises, and so on.