Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

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Glubbdubdrib
drurr
Tramecksan and Slamecksan
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drurr

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Definition:
a measure about the fourteenth part of an inch

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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his majesty hath determined to make use only of low heels in the administration of the government, and all offices in the gift of the crown, as you cannot but observe: and particularly, that his majesty's imperial heels are lower, at least by a drurr, than any of his court (drurr is a measure about the fourteenth part of an inch).

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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