MEANS
ADJECTIVES
► HARDPAN without money or means → 1928 Amer. dial.
NOUNS
► HARDPAN a financial low point; a situation in which one is without money or means → 1870 Amer. dial.
► MIDSES means, methods, ways → 1660 Sc. obs.
► MIGHTS means, power, help → 1787 Sc. obs.
VERBS
► HAVE NO MORE SARK THAN WILL COVER ONE’S BACK to have no superfluity of means → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAISE THE WIND to procure money or necessary means → a1350
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