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  • verb Present participle of cox.

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Examples

  • If you need a little more coxing, here is a trailer voice over for the story:

    Archive 2009-04-01 Aaron M. Wilson 2009

  • *The recipient of this letter said: I was walking from the boathouse back to college on an unpleasantly raw winter afternoon after an unsatisfactory session of coxing when I was joined by C.S.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Arevanye 2008

  • *The recipient of this letter said: I was walking from the boathouse back to college on an unpleasantly raw winter afternoon after an unsatisfactory session of coxing when I was joined by C.S.

    A Fool's Pardon Arevanye 2008

  • We played tag for awhile, which was fun and I had a really good coxing day.

    cacatherine Diary Entry cacatherine 2007

  • Hopefully I can kick this thing before it turns me into some freaky coxing monster * slash* heartless bitch.

    cacatherine Diary Entry cacatherine 2007

  • Will you, who have a coxing tongue will wheadle any one, write to her as soon as you have finisht the famous tradgedy?

    The Virginians 2006

  • Mr Riddell knows very little about sports, though I do hear he was seen coxing a schoolhouse boat this morning.

    The Willoughby Captains Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • And when at the end of that period he did revisit his old haunts, armed with a captain's permit, it was only to discover that whatever small chance he ever had of coxing his house's boat at the coming regatta, had vanished under the new arrangement which had brought Riddell into the boat.

    The Willoughby Captains Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • He was down coxing his boat, and the thought of this only reminded Telson of his own bad luck, and added to his ill-temper.

    The Willoughby Captains Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • Will you, who have a coxing tongue will wheadle any one, write to her as soon as you have finisht the famous tradgedy?

    The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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