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Limerick (iou)



Limerick adjective & noun. E19.
[The chief town of County Limerick, Ireland.]
A. adjective.
Designating gloves of fine leather formerly made at Limerick. E19.
Designating (the pattern of) a fish-hook in which the wire is bent abruptly through a large angle behind the barb but thereafter is bent more shallowly to the point at which it continues as the straight shank. E19.
Designating a type of embroidered lace originally made at Limerick. M19.
b. noun.
A Limerick fish-hook. M19.
Limerick lace. L19.
(Usu. limerick.) A humorous or comic five-line stanza with the rhyme scheme aabba, there being three feet in the a lines and two in the b lines. L19.