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verb1
Dated To battle.
- Gen. Greene, having received all the reinforcements he expected, instantly prepared to try titles for victory, with his lordship, at the point of a bayonet.1839, Benjamin Eggleston, The Wars of America (Hazard & Bloomer), page 450
- If it could have been made to appear that his only motive was to save the Democratic party from the Hollis and Stevens radicalism, he might have been persuaded to try titles with these gentlemen.1914 August 15, “Why The Governor Is Not In”, in Nashua Telegraph, http://nashua.advantage-preservation.com/Viewer/DownloadPDFFile?PubDateId=13692491 page 4:
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To litigate a claim to property (most often real estate) or a public office.