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base sb.2: boys' game, in which a player who leaves his ‘base or ‘home’ is chased by another, and, if caught, made prisoner Cym. V. iii. 20 “to run The country base” ; phrase “bid a” or “the base,” to challenge as to a race Gent. I. ii. 94, Ven. 303.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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