| 单词 | cock bread |
| 释义 | > as lemmascock bread cock bread n. now historical a type of food given to fighting cocks, containing any of various ingredients such as eggs, flour, and spices. ΚΠ 1709 R. Howlett Royal Pastime Cock-fighting 57 Now to make cock-bread aright, and at the same time, to have it suit with every Feeder's humour, is a thing altogether impossible, seeing we are quot Homines tot Sententiæ. 1796 Sporting Mag. June 167/2 A little of Bromley's Cock bread from Berkshire. 1838 R. Southey Doctor V. 270 You feed us with Cock-bread, and arm us with steel spurs. 1891 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 17 Nov. 6/8 Here is the recipe for the food which fighting cocks are given while training. It is called cock bread and is very nutritious and stimulating. 1985 N. Lewis Jackdaw Cake ii. 15 It was fed on chopped up fillet steak, barley sugar, aniseed, ginger, rhubarb and yeast mixed with ‘cock bread’ made from oatmeal and eggs to which a little cinnamon was added. < as lemmas |
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