The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vocabulary

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pard

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Definition:
1. n. (slang) a partner, mate.
2. n. the panther: the leopard: in poetry, any spotted animal.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)
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The new old gentleman turns brisk towards Ab Turner and his pard, and his eye lights up like he judged he'd got the king this time

Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn
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scraped up the sand again with a fury of his claws, soon ceasing, a pard, a panther, got in spousebreach, vulturing the dead.

James Joyce. Ulysses
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