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Sell Pay Sum Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's

Sentence 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, ch. 21:

"Suppose we sell off all the horses, and sell one of your farms, and pay up square?"
Definition (
intransitive
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and
transitive
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) To pay
in total
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a sum which is
owed
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, especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time.

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