E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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Repetition. So called from a game which consists in some one setting a line which another is to rhyme to, but no one word of the first line must occur in the second. | 1 |
Dumb crambo. Pantomime of a word in rhyme to a given word. Thus if cat is the given word, the pantomimists would act Bat, Fat, Hat, Mat, Pat, Rat, Sat, etc., till the word acted is guessed. | 2 |
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