mahaffee

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English

"Mahaffee with a Box for the Legs" from Henry Abbott's journal (1789)

Noun

mahaffee (plural mahaffees)

  1. Alternative form of mihaffa.
    • 1789, Henry Abbott, A Journal, with Occasional Remarks, Made on a Trip from Aleppo to Bussora, across the Grand Desart of Arabia, pages 35-36:
      ... and had not gone many miles, before we found that the camel we were upon, was too weak to bear our weight much longer; but were unwilling to lose time by stopping to shift the mahaffees; at length the sun began to heat the sandy plains, and the poor creature laid himself down very quietly ...