Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of petrel, probably a shearwater of the genus Puffinus.
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Examples
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On May 28, 1609, he records that "in the afternoone wee departed out of Hatch (Al-Hauta, the capital of the Lahej district near Aden), and travelled untill three in the morninge, and then wee rested in the plaine fields untill three the next daie, neere unto a cohoo howse in the desert."
All About Coffee 1909
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Farther on was "a little village, where there is sold cohoo and fruite.
All About Coffee 1909
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The seeds of this cohoo is a greate marchandize, for it is carried to grand Cairo and all other places of Turkey, and to the Indias. "
All About Coffee 1909
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