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Verb
praie
- Alternative form of pry (“pray”)
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 11-12:w'oul daie an ercha daie, our meines an oure gurles, praie var long an happie zins,- we will daily and every day, our wives and our children, implore long and happy days,
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116