meritot

English

Noun

meritot (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, nonce word) A children's game of swinging on ropes or similar until dizzy.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Last modified on 21 December 2011, at 14:10