string-beans

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  Mentioned in 2 Sam. 17:28 as having been brought to David when flying from Absalom. They formed a co...

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• Beans

  (2 Samuel 17:28; Ezekiel 4:9) Beans are cultivated in Palestine, which produces many of the legumino...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• String

  ·noun The line or cord of a bow. II. String ·noun The points made in a game. III. String ·noun A n...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• string

  or gab or gob A bridle. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• string

  A common name among teamsters for a whip. With some judicious touches of the string, the horses are...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• string

  [Anglo-Saxon stræng]. In ship-building, a strake within side, constituting the highest range of plan...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sea-beans

  Pods of the acacia tribe shed into the rivers about the Gulf of Mexico, and borne by the stream to t...

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• Apron string

  ·- The string of an <<Apron>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Navel-string

  ·noun The umbilical cord. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• gob string

  A bridle. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• gob-string

  a bridle ; keep a hand on the gob-string, keep a tight rein. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• apron string hold

  An estate held by a man during his wife's life. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose