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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A preposition used in some of the Northern States, but not peculiar to America.


When the stack rises two feet high to be conveniently forked onto from the ground.--Marshall, Rural Econ., Yorkshire, Vol. II. p. 144.

Mr. Pickering quotes the following as the only example he has seen in an American book:

Take all your cigars and tobacco, and in some calm evening carry them onto the common.--Dr. B. Waterhouse, Lecture on Tobacco.

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