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Cockspur

noun

Widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass. Synonyms: cocksfoot, Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass.

Small spiny West Indian tree. Synonym: Pisonia aculeata.

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"Cockspur" Quotes from Famous Books

... marketing-day, nor Saturday, nor Monday—upon which consequently Diamond could be spared from the baby—his father took him on his own cab. After a stray job or two by the way, they drew up in the row upon the stand between Cockspur Street and Pall Mall. They waited a long time, but nobody seemed to want to be carried anywhere. By and by ladies would be going home from the Academy exhibition, and then there would be a ...

— At the Back of the North Wind • George MacDonald

... firm, claiming to do all sorts of wonderful things—to tell dreams, solve tricks, divine the presence of metals and water, and so on, has just set up in Cockspur Street. I read a short notice about them in this morning's paper. I ...

— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell

Words linked to "Cockspur" : grass, Pisonia, cockspur thorn, Dactylis glomerata, genus Pisonia, tree