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By-blow   /baɪ-bloʊ/   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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"By-blow" Quotes from Famous Books



... child on the 16th of January, 1696-7, who was baptized on the Monday following, the 18th, and registered by the name of Richard, the son of John Smith, by Mr. Burbridge; and, from the privacy, was supposed by Mr. Burbridge to be "a by-blow or bastard."' It also appears, that during her delivery, the lady wore a mask; and that Mary Pegler, on the next day after the baptism, took a male child, whose mother was called Madam Smith, from the house of Mrs. Pheasant, in Fox Court ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill


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