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Definition of Cockspurs
1. cockspur [n] - See also: cockspur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockspurs
Literary usage of Cockspurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1905)
"Perhaps it was so named for neither of these reasons, but because here was first
established the trade in artificial cockspurs which supplied the constant ..."
2. Lawrie Todd: Or, the Settlers in the Woods by John Galt (1849)
"... morning ascertain from the cockspurs who among them are still alive, and I
will write to some of them, though my letters will be as from the grave. ..."
3. A Woman Rice Planter by Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (1918)
"I have made myself a beautiful big blue denim apron turned up about twenty inches,
so that when I go in the field to get rid of the cockspurs and see the ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"25. burned clay are used for placing between them, so as to make them rest on
points ; these are called •watches, cockspurs, triangles, stilts, &c., fig. ..."
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