Lexicographical Neighbors of Corkir
Literary usage of Corkir
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"... called corkir grows, are to be had in many places on the ... but the corkir
is white, and thinner than any other that ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"corkir. Therefore, my lord, I from thence argue thus, that since there is no
other evidence, nor further proof of it. ..."
3. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"CORKIE, s. The largest kind of pin ; a bodkin-pin, Fife. Corking-pin, X.
CORKIN-PREEN, s. Corking-pin, S. corkir, j. ..."
4. Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760 by Richard Pococke (1887)
"... 3 is a mineral water; two sea weeds for dying grow on the stones there, corkir
for Crimson, ..."
5. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"Applied to roads formed in new settlements, of trees laid roughly on sleepers
transverse to the direction of the road: as suddenly for artillery. corkir ..."
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