CORKERS—Winners.
CORKED—Conquered in a succession of games.
COW’D LOORD, COWT LOORD, COW’D LADY—A haver meal dumplin boil’d e’ broth. Says Anderson:
“A three quart piggen full o’ keale,
He’ll sup, the greedy sinner,
Then eat a cow’d loord like lead,
Ay, onie day at dinner.”
COWEY—“Cowey, my cow,” said a poet, an’ t’ critics could mak nowt ato on’t. A cowey coo is aboot as useful an’ aboot as harmless as ow’t ’at’s gaan. Tweea coos hed been feitin’ an’ yan gat a horn off wi’ ’t. “Knock tudder off, Goordie, an’ mak her a cowey,” said a lass when she saw’t. “Cush, barn,” said he, “Ah nivver hard seck a tial as that afoor.”
COWL—To rake wi’ a cow-rak. Bunyan in his immortal vision saw a man ’at was always cowlin’.
COWLEN—A gurt cowlen chap is yan ’at’s built in a strang useful way, an’ net ower fine.