What is to make a thorough search. To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. Chaucer called?
ransack — To make a thorough search. To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. Chaucer. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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