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From H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man: On the village green an inclined strong, down which, clinging the while to a pulley-swing handle, one could be hurled violently against a sack at the other end, come in for considerable favour among the adolescent, as also did the swings and the cocoanut shies.
Chapter X. Mr. Marvel's Visit to Iping Sounds like a flying fox ; but I can't find a single noun for strong; though: Strong ORIGIN Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German streng, also to string.
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looks like it was a typo in some editions. edit: and here.
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You're right.
I actually checked with Gutenberg before posting, and the edition I quoted from is a modern one.
I only discovered the Amazon search-this-book function two days ago, and am not yet in the habit of using it.
Great tool though.
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Typo aside, it's a dog's breakfast of a sentence Mr Wells.
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... it's a dog's breakfast of a sentence ... Love the expression, TP, and I agree with you 983%
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Chapter 22, there's another anomaly: The phrase: "gave a view hallo!" of a shopkeeper upon spotting the invisible man (clothed) whom they've been chasing about a department store. Google turns up some curious results (a painting, the script of Mary Poppins, a ghoulish method of execution) but no definition that I can find. (It's not a typo this time; I checked with Amazon  )
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this time I resort to.. wait for it..
OED2: view-halloo
The shout given by a huntsman on seeing a fox break cover. Also fig.
your particular variant is first attested to Baron Edward G. E. L. Bulwer-Lytton, in My Novel (1853): "The Squire.. bellowed out with all the force of lungs accustomed to give a View-hallo!" [yes, that Bulwer-Lytton.]
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Thanks for that.
I knew what a hunter's halloo was, just curious as to see an entry for "view-hallo".
That's some dictionary you got there. What's the 2? Second edition?
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what?! you've not heard of the Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition, 1989?? [commonly abbrev. OED2]
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I am unfamiliar with anything but concise versions of the OED because a 20 volume dictionary is a little out of my price range.
Feel free to be shocked at my indigence as well as my ignorance.
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