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A large basket of coarse wicker-work, used mostly for carrying turf—Anglice, peat.
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When Strafford's infamous project of the wholesale robbery of Connaught was put in practice, not being quite certain of his juries, he writes that he will send three hundred horse to the province during the proceedings, as "good lookers-on."
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A saying among the Irish peasantry—meaning there is danger in delay.
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The name given to the police by the people—the force being first established by Sir Robert Peel, then Mr. Peel, Secretary for Ireland.
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Just such a lengthy correspondence had appeared in the London journals when the first edition of this book was published.