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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the extracts.
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Examples
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Whiston.] [Footnote 75: Pegge concludes these to have been St Paul’s, Bow, and Martin’s le Grand.] [Footnote 76: The custom of boys bringing cocks to masters has left a trace at Sedburgh, where the boys pay a sum every year on a particular day (Shrove-Tuesday?) as “cock-penny.”
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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