Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	earth_n	place_n	water_n	1,539	5	6.1966	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62402	The true art of angling, or, The best and speediest way of taking all sorts of fresh-water fish with the worm, fly paste, and other baits, in their proper seasons how to know the haunts of fish, and angle for them in all waters and weathers, at the top, middle, and bottom, baiting of the ground, and night baits, oyls, and oyntments, baits natural and atificial : the several ways of angling, to make oyl of asper, and many rare secrets never before made publick, containing the whole body of angling, and mystery of a compleat angler / by J.S., gent., an brother of the angle.	J. S. (John Smith)	1696 (1696)	Wing S96; ESTC R32405	37,331	170

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