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Heard tell

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: OE

The phrases to hear say , hear tell, etc., of which some are still in dialectal or colloquial, and occasionally literary, use.

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Yes, I have heard tell that they came with the United-Empire-Loyalists.
heard about
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Oh yes. I have heard tell of those but I never saw one.
heard about
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I never heard tell of him doing any dynamite in his life.
heard about
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And I- it's the first time I ever heard tell of it. But that's the only place that I can think of that it would be…
heard about
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Interviewer: No? Speaker: Tell you a story. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Maybe you've heard tell of him. We had a fellow in the neighbourhood at Rosetta there who had ah an-
heard about
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Ah, the first chemical I ever heard tell was called Killex (sp) and it was for louse powder for cattle.
heard about