Ephraim
['i:freiim]
Definition
(n.) A hunter's name for the grizzly bear.
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Examples
- Ephraim McDowell, of Danville, Kentucky, in 1809, and the tying of the great arteries. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Ephraim is an heartless dove--Issachar an over-laboured drudge, which stoops between two burdens. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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