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† cock-bell Obs. exc. dial.
Also 4 coke-, 5–6 cok-, (5 cokerbell).
[perh. f. F. coque shell + bell. Cf. cock n.4, and the nursery combination of ‘cockle-shells and silver bells’. Sense 3 is perhaps a distinct word.]
†1. A small bell. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 219 Eueriche of þilke ymages bare..a cokebelle [1485 Caxton, cokerbell] of siluer [Higden nolam argenteam] i-honged aboute his nekke. c1440Promp. Parv. 86 Cok belle, nola, campanella, bulla. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 366/2 Take them then as yonger brethren litle babes vntaughte, and geue them..ratilles and cokbelles and gay golden shone.
†2. A spring wild-flower, frequented by bees.
1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. vi. (1623) O iij, In Taurus, Slow-tree, Plum-tree, Goosebery..Cherry, Pear, Cock bell, which is a Wood-flowre.
3. An icicle. Usually in pl. (Also cog-bell, cockabell, cocklebell, conkabell.)
1645Bargrave MS. Diary in Kentish Dial. (E.D.S.), My breath turned into many cock-bells as I walked. 1735Pegge Kenticisms, Cock-bells, icicles. 1736J. Lewis Hist. Thanet Gloss., Cog-bells, icecicles, ice-candles. 1746Gentl. Mag. XVI. 406 Conkabell, an icicle, in the Som. dialect clinkabell. 1880E. Cornw. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Cockabell, cocklebell, icicle. 1887Parish & Shaw Kentish Dial., There are some large cog-bells hanging from the thatch. |