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By-blow

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Noun

1. bastard, by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson

the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

By-blow

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noun
1. 
a passing or incidental blow
2.  an archaic word for a bastard

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By-blow

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noun
1. 
an indirect blow or hit
2.  Archaic
a child born out of wedlock

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

By-blow

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n.
1. An indirect or chance blow.
2. Offensive A person born to parents not married to each other.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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