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Simon Le·gree (lə grē′)

  1. the villainous slave overseer in H. B. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
  2. any cruel taskmaster

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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