cornish : Idioms & Phrases


Cornish chough

  • . See Chough.
Webster 1913

Cornish engine

  • a single-acting pumping engine, used in mines, in Cornwall and elsewhere, and for water works. A heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up the water by its weight, in descending.
Webster 1913

cornish fowl

  • noun English breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters
    Cornish.
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cornish heath

  • noun bushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere
    Erica vagans.
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cornish pasty

  • noun meat pie with filling of meat and vegetables
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rock cornish

  • noun small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl
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rock cornish hen

  • noun flesh of a small fowl bred for roasting
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