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Webster 1828 Edition

Stabbing

STABBING

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ppr.

Piercing with a pointed weapon; killing with a pointed instrument by piercing the body.

STABBING

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Noun.

The act of piercing with a pointed weapon; the act of wounding or killing with a pointed instrument.

This statute was made on account of the frequent quarrels and stabbings with short daggers.