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A man who takes the place of his wife when she is in child-bed. (See Reader’s Handbook, p. 217, col. 2.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.