creepie
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He placed himself on a somewhat ricketty "creepie," for the unwonted number of guests had used up all his available chairs.
From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa
When I mount the creepie chair, Wha will sit beside me there?
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
Margaret sat right under it, upon a creepie, or small three-legged wooden stool.
From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George
She took her creepie and sat, and looked on the sea; but, whether she looked seaward or landward, all seemed unreal; not things, but hard pictures of things, some moving, some still.
From Christie Johnstone by Reade, Charles
But I thought it best to sit down on a seat, even as he bade me, and so I drew a creepie stool carelessly nearer to me with one hand.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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