heered
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[edit]Verb
[edit]heered
- (dialectal) heard; simple past and past participle of hear
- 1877, Samuel Woodworth Cozzens, The Young Trail Hunters[1]:
- "Putty soon I heered somebody down in the woods a-callin'.
- 1914, Zane Grey, The Light of Western Stars[2]:
- Old as I am, Miss Majesty, an' used as I am to cowboy excentrikities, I nearly dropped daid when I heered that little hobble-footed, burned-up Montana cow-puncher say there wasn't any game too swell for him, an' gol-lof was just his speed.