† course-a-parkn.
Obsolete.
Name of a country game, in which a girl called out one of the other sex to chase her.
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course-a-park1613
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Tom Tiddler's ground1816
one catch all1854
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pig in the middle1887
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ring-a-levio1891
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1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. iii. 46 Staid with the Maides to runne at Barlybreake: Or that he cours'd a Parke with females fraught, Which would not runne except they might be caught.
a1642 J. Suckling Poems 37 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) At Course-a-Park, without all doubt, He should have first been taken out By all the Maids i'th' Town.
1675 H. Teonge Diary (1825) 112 Like boys and gyrles at course-a-packe, or barly breakes.
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