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Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary
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cut stick
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synonyms: absquatulate, take French leave, ~bunbury ???
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Definition:to leave in a hurry
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"Why, you don't know, I s'pose, that Lizy's cut stick, and clared out, with her young un?"
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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‘And now that the nag has got his wind again,’ said Mr Chuckster rising in a graceful manner, ‘I’m afraid I must cut my stick.’
Charles Dickens. The Old Curiosity Shop
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