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By-blow   Listen
noun
By-blow  n.  
1.
A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow. "With their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces."
2.
An illegitimate child; a bastard. "The Aga speedily... brought her (his disgraced slave) to court, together with her pretty by-blow, the present Padre Ottomano."





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Words linked to "By-blow" :   offspring, issue, bastard, illegitimate child


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