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(The OED was originally published over a number of years in fascicles of various lengths which were sold by subscription, a method that is, alas, no longer practised.)
cat whipping or whipping the cat a trick often practised on ignorant country fellows, vain of their strength: a wager is laid with them that they may be pulled through a pond by a cat.
Bruce, it turned out, was the author of the 15-word super-sentence--a creation that not only contains an elliptical adverb clause of comparison, “than I [practised],” and a hidden noun clause, “[that] he stank,” but compacts the four phrases into the subordinate part and the three clauses into the main part.
Fred, ' 1 wanting 2 to win 3 by 4 playing hard, practised more 5 than I, 6 who knew 7 he stank.
It is hard to see what has got into the people at Cassell's, for here is another book--this time a superior one--on which they have practised their onomancy: the original title (1992) was Brewer's Names . At least they have not taken to changing the names of the authors of these books, and this one bears that of the estimable lexicographer and onomastician, Adrian Room.