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waif
1. Nautical another name for waft
2. Law obsolete a stolen article thrown away by a thief in his flight and forfeited to the Crown or to the lord of the manor


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In a parallel way, both Donald Maingi Kuria's Street Child in the Blast (Fig.
Hecht also cleverly incorporates the first hand account of a Brazilian street child and a short story by Cristina Rossi about the boys and girls who were taken from their families after Uruguay was seized by military coup in the 1970s.
For over half a century, the street child was an inescapable fixture of the nineteenth-century industrial city.
 
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