dilworth

[< Thomas Dilworth, English schoolmaster, d. 1780]

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a school textbook, "A New Guide to the English Tongue," long used in the Maritimes.

Quotations

1845

Each little black-eyed urchin, on his wooden bench and dog-eared dilworth in hand must be treated by his teacher as a free enlightened citizen.