† 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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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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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n.1613- or better
- or bust
- or e'er
- or either
- or else
- or ere
- or even
- or ever
- or for one to shame
- or for the slaughter
- out of reparations
- out of reparel
- out of request
- out of respect
- out of reverence
- out of ride
- out of rule
- out of schneider
- out of score
- out of season
- out of service
- out of shape
- out of sight
- out of sight, out of mind
- out of sorts