puttie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Their putties were not soaked and not caked; say, rather, that there may have been a core of puttie inside, but that the men's legs were embedded in a serpentine cast of clay.
From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by Steevens, G. W. (George Warrington)
Their putties were not soaked and not caked; say, rather, that there may have been a core of puttie inside, but that the men's legs were imbedded in a serpentine cast of clay.
From Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
"It was only a chance, but a strange one," he went on, with his eyes fixed on the topmost ridge of his brown puttie.
From On the Firing Line by Fuller, Hamilton Brock
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