The night preceding Shrove Tuesday is so called in Cornwall, because boys play tricks and practical jokes on that night. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
A rocking-stone in the parish of Sithney (Cornwall) which a little child could move. The soldiers of Cromwell thought it fostered superstition, and rendered it immovable. Source:…
Pie made of squabs—i.e. young pigeons; also a pie made of mutton, apples, and onions. Cornwall squab-pie, and Devon white-pot brings. And Leicester beans and bacon, fit for kings. King:…
The projecting stone lantern of a tower erected on St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. It is said that the rock received its name from a religious house built to commemorate the apparition of…
Courts of record in Cornwall and Devon for the administration of justice among the tinners. (Latin, stannum, tin.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894StarStank…
Duke of Cornwall, husband of Igerna, who was the mother of King Arthur by an adulterous connection with Uther, pendragon of the Britons. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…
One of the four principal highways made by the Romans in England, leading from Cornwall to Lincoln. It had a foss or ditch on each side of it. (See Ermine Street.) Source: Dictionary of…
means the eyebrows. Looking or gazing from under brent-hill. In Devonshire means “frowning at one;” and in West Cornwall to brend means to wrinkle the brows. It is very remarkable that…
or Gurney Light. The latter is the name of the inventor, and the former the place of his abode. (Goldsworthy Gurney, of Bude, Cornwall.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…
(Battle of, Cornwall), which put an end to the Knights of the Round Table. Here Arthur received his death wound from the hand of his nephew Modred. (A.D. 542.) Source: Dictionary of…
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