'By-blow' definitions:
Definition of 'by-blow'
(from WordNet)
noun
The illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn: bastard, by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, illegitimate, whoreson]
Definition of 'By-blow'
From: GCIDE
- By-blow \By"-blow`\, n.
- 1. A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow. [1913 Webster]
- With their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces. --Bunyan. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An illegitimate child; a bastard. [1913 Webster]
- The Aga speedily . . . brought her [his disgraced slave] to court, together with her pretty by-blow, the present Padre Ottomano. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]