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As big as a Dorchester butt. Very corpulent, like the butts of Dorchester. Of Toby Filpot it is said:
“His breath-doors of life on a sudden were shut,
And he died full as big as a Dorchester butt.”
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OʹKeefe: Poor Soldier.
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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.
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