Can You Solve This Old-Timey Riddle? #32

This riddle dates back to 1806—can you figure out the answer?
Can you figure it out?
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This is another puzzle from A New Collection of Enigmas, Charades, Transpositions, and &c., which was published in London in 1806.

While the majority of the book consists of some fairly long verse puzzles and poetic enigmas, toward the end of the book are 18 shorter language and lateral-thinking games, or “Queries,” from which the puzzle below is taken. Can you work out what seven-letter word is being described here?

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