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145 Cow. A windlass with a cowl shaped top to supply air in a mine. M.A.c. Cowal. A fish-basket used by fish-jowders, and carried on the back. This is from the Celtic Cornish cawal, cauwaly or cowal, a hamper, a basket. ^ (i^ Cow-flops. Wild parsnips. Cowl. A fish bladder. B.v. Cowshern. Cow-dung. Cowsherny. A term descriptive of the colour of the sea when it looks olive-green, or turbid as if coloured with cow-dung. C. Cowsy, or Coosy. To chat. This is from the Celtic Cornish cows or caws, to speak, or talk. Causen, (Spenser), to argue or debate. Coxy. See Cocky. Crake, or Craak. To croak, to quaver in speaking, or singing. Crake and crakel are Chaucer's words. Craake. A croaker, a querulous, fretting person. " She's a regular craake." Craakin. Always fretting and complaining, also con- tinual and melancholy chatter. " Te's wisht to hear her craakin hour by hour." Craaky. Hoarse, and shaky. Used of the voice. Cracky. Half mad. " Flighty." Crame. To creep. "To crame down." In Celtic Cornish cramia means to creep, and cramyas, creeping. K