10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COCKMATCH»
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cockmatch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
They Belonged to Glasgow: The City from the Bottom Up
CockMatch. The cityfathers threatened to 'makeapublic example'of the
unknownperson or personswhohad 'wickedly, wantonly, and maliciously'
smashed a large number oflampsin the town. Robert Calder, shoemaker, was
banished 'by tuck ...
Rudolph Kenna, Ian Sutherland, 2013
2
The Life and Times of William III, King of England, and ...
478 cockmatch, and that he kept them company there. To this the Dean told her
Majesty, that he had been at Bath several months in that year, being obliged to so
long a stay there, by his wives haveing been very ill the whole time and in great ...
3
A Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages: Abridged ...
Cockmatch, ». Pelea de gallos. [minado. Cockney, ». Hijo de Londres; hombre
afe- Cock-pit, #□ Plattde gallos. (Núu.) Entarimado del sollado. Cock's-comb, (
Bot) Especie de celosía. 'Cockspur, ». (Bot) Especie de níspero. Cocksure, a. (
Vulg.) ...
Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, 1858
4
Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary: In which the Accentuation, ...
t'. n. to contract into wrinkles [stairs Cocklestairs, k6k'l-sta'rz, s. windin g or spiral
Cockloit, kok'-loft, s. the room over the Cockmatch, kok'-matsh, s. a cock! ght for
Cockney, k6k'-ny, s. a native of London, an eifeminate, low citizen Cockpit, ...
John Walker, P. Austin Nuttall, 1857
5
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew: ...
Here, hearing there was to be a great Cock-match, he lays aside his Rat-catchefs
Habit, and puts on that of a Gentleman. and not the Habit only, (as too many do,
but the Manners and Behaviour likewise) so 'that going to the CockMatch he ...
Robert Goadby, Bampfylde Moore Carew, Thomas Jones, 1768
6
The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and ...
Come, knight.—Pox on him, I don't know what to say to him.—\Vill you go to a
cockmatch 2 . Sir W [L With a wench, Tony ! Is she a shakebag, sirrah ? Let me
bite your check for that. Wit. Horrible l he has a breath like a bagpipc l—Ay, ay ;
come, ...
7
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Lord Castlewood, we have said, became daily more familiar and friendly with his
guest and relative. Till the crops were oil" the ground there was no sporting,
except an occasional cockmatch at Winchester, and a bull-baiting at Hexton Fair.
Can it be that the phrase to make a match is obsolete? If we had cock-matches
should we not be understood if we said, as was said by the “London Gazette” in
1703, “There is a cockmatch made between the counties of Surrey and Sussex”?
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1904
Can it be that the phrase to make a match is obsolete? lf we had cock-matches
should we not be understood if we said, as was said by the "London Gazette" in
1703, "There is a cockmatch made between the counties of Surrey and Sussex"?
10
An English-Welsh pronoucing Dictionary
Cockle- stairs, grisiau nydd-droellog Cockloft, Tcokloft », crogloift Cockmatch, kok
'mateh », ymladdfa ceiliogod Cockney, kok'nî », un o Lundain Cockpit, kok'pit »,
twmpath ceiliogod ; ystafell y clwvfedig mem Hong ryfel Cockroach, kok rötsh » ...
