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| cotch'd_on_the_hip¹ | meaning uncertain- Probably Struck down fatally [“he smote them hip and thigh” King James Bible Judges 15:8] [CPB]
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| cotton waste¹ | Refuse yarn from the manufacture of cotton, used for cleaning machinery and other purposes. [OED]
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| Cove(1) | A fellow; a chap [OED]
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| crack(1) | Instant [OED]
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| crack(2) |
Gossip, chat
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| crambo | The OED gives Crambo "A game in which one player gives a word or line of verse to which each of the others has to find a rhyme"
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| crammer¹ | A lie [OED]
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| crazy(1) | Having the bodily health or constitution impaired; indisposed, ailing; diseased, sickly; broken down, frail, infirm. [OED]
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| crib¹ | To pilfer, purloin, steal; to appropriate furtively (a small part of anything). Probably originally Thieves' slang [OED]
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| crimped¹ | Crimp: To compress into small regular folds or ridges; to corrugate; to frill. [OED]
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| Crinoline¹ | A stiffened petticoat or underskirt made with this material, designed to support the skirts of a woman's dress; (hence) a rigid petticoat worn for this purpose, lined with, or consisting of, a framework of some other material, as whalebone, steel hoops, etc.; a hoop petticoat. It enjoyed greatest popularity in the mid 19th cent [OED] Below is a cutaway view of a crinoline, Punch magazine, August 1856
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| crommin¹ | Crommin: Crushing [Bannister, Fred. The Annals of Trawden Forest (1922, R Hyde & Sons, Colne) p59]
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| crop(1) | Creep, crept (N.W. England).
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| cropped¹ | Cropped:- Cut off; cut short; plucked, lopped, pruned. [OED]
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cropp'd¹ |
| cropper¹ | Cropper A workman who shears the nap of cloth (The rough layer of projecting threads or fibres on the surface of a woollen or other textile fabric); a cloth-shearer [OED]
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| crosses¹ | In a general sense: A trouble, vexation, annoyance; misfortune, adversity; sometimes (under the influence of the verb) anything that thwarts or crosses [OED]
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| crowner¹ | Crowner: coroner - An officer of a county, district, or municipality (formerly also of the royal household), originally charged with maintaining the rights of the private property of the crown; in modern times his chief function is to hold inquest on the bodies of those supposed to have died by violence or accident [OED]
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| crown¹ | Crown: A coin worth five shillings or cash to that amount. 12 old pennies = 1 shilling
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crowns¹,croon¹ |
| Cuckold's Point(1) | Part of a sharp bend on the River Thames on the Rotherhithe peninsula, south-east London
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| Cuckoo Jack | Jack John Wilson (1792 – 1860) was better known as Cuckoo Jack. His nickname came about because his father making cuckoo clocks.
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