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Definition
periodic shedding of hair, skin, horn, or feathers
- Joad could see it ahead of him, its poor branches curving over the way, its load of leaves tattered and scraggly as a molting chicken.Chapter 4 (10% in)
- Joad had moved into the imperfect shade of the molting leaves before the man heard him coming, stopped his song, and turned his head.Chapter 4 (14% in)
- The evening light was on the fields, and the cotton plants threw long shadows on the ground, and the molting willow tree threw a long shadow.Chapter 6 (11% in)
There are no more uses of "molt" in The Grapes of Wrath.
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