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Contraction
on't
- (archaic, regional) Contraction of on it.
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. , volume III, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 29:“Speak no more on’t,” she said; “and now let us part, our conversation may attract more notice than is convenient for either of us.”
, J Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:'For', says she, 'he is run off I know not where, but as he makes his bed, must he lie on't; and if he run away for his pleasure, may stay away for mine.
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