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The Grapes of Wrath vocabulary
2 archaic vocabulary words
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Definition:1) the act or a place of throwing; a throw or toss2) to throw
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The fellows were practising long shies and bowling lobs and slow twisters.
James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
---It was the finest of all possible Whit Mondays, and down the village street stood a row of nearly a dozen booths, a shooting gallery, and on the grass by the forge were three yellow and chocolate waggons and some picturesque strangers of both sexes putting up a cocoanut shy.
H.G. Wells. The Invisible Man.
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Timothy leaned down and picked up a green walnut. He tested it with his thumb and then shied it at a blackbird sitting on a fence wire.
John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath, p.313 (1939)
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