[Ads-l] Antedating the word "slew" ' large number or quantity of something'

Michael Everson everson at EVERTYPE.COM
Wed Jul 22 10:39:32 UTC 2015


Can someone post the citations for slew (as in ‘he asked me a whole slew of questions”)? I believe we’ve got a very fine antedating.

Thanks,
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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