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ˈcockspur
Also cock's-spur.
1. The spur of a cock.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Espolon, a cocks spur. 1700J. Brome Trav. Eng. 275 Some [stones] we discovered..which resemble Cock-spurs.
2. Angling. A kind of Caddis-worm.
1653Walton Angler 231 There is also a lesser Cadis⁓worm, called a Cock-spur, being in fashion like the spur of a Cock, sharp at one end. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 183 Other water Flys there are that come of such worms, called Cock-spurs, Rough-coats, Pipers. 1867F. Francis Angling i. (1880) 20 A small fragment of red worm, or as it is called on the Trent, the cock-spur.
3. A shrub with reclining thorny branches, Pisonia aculeata, found in the West Indies.
1756P. Browne Jamaica 358 The Cock's-spur or Fingrigo is frequent in all the sugar islands.
4. (See quot.)
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Cockspurs, small clay wedges used in the potteries to separate articles of pottery ware, after the process of glazing, and to prevent them adhering.
5. A kind of casement latch hung by a pin.
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 100 Smiths in London ask'd me 6d. per Pound for Casements..if they made them with Turn-bouts (or Turn-buckles) or Cock-spurs, and Pull⁓backs at the Hind-side to pull them to with.
6. See quot. = Fr. ergot.
1710London & Wise Compl. Gard. (1719) 136 The Cock spur, or dry dead parts of Branches that remain where a Branch was shorten'd above the next Eye or Shoot. 1799G. Smith Laborat. II. 131 The dead wood, called cock-spur, is to be cut clean off in the following year in March.
7. ergot of rye. Also attrib.
1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 541 Rainy and moist seasons in which the rye contained a large proportion of the cockspur. Ibid. 545 To collect a sufficient quantity of the cockspur rye.
8. Short for cockspur burner, thorn.
1808Catal. Plants Bot. Garden Liverpool 21 Crus Galli, Cockspur.
9. Comb. cockspur-burner, a gas-burner with three holes; cockspur-grass, Panicum Crus-galli, an annual grass occasional in Britain; cockspur hawthorn, c. thorn, Cratægus Crus-galli, a native of North America, cultivated as an ornamental shrub in Europe.
1741Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 367 There are likewise many Trees and Shrubs now in Bloom, as the..Cockspur Hawthorn. 1810Ann. Reg. 1808, Charact., etc. 133 The shape and general appearance of this tube, has procured it among the workmen, the name of the cockspur burner. Ibid., The number of burners..amounts to 271 Argands, and 633 cockspurs. 1819Accum Coal Gas 255 A swing bracket, furnished with a cockspur burner. The burner consists of a hollow flattened globe..pierced laterally with three or more holes. 1825P. W. Watson Dendrol. Brit. 56 Mespilus Crus Galli, W. Cockspur Thorn. 1846G. B. Emerson Trees & Shrubs 433 Cockspur Thorn..a singularly neat shrub, often forming a beautiful, round-headed, small tree. |