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They did say gawky and golliker for ` left-handed, 'and the Old English cockstride for ` astride,' but these were in the English Dialect Dictionary (EDD).
hernesheir commented on the word cockstride
A very short distance is the definition given in Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary. Five consecutive consonants.
May 10, 2011
Gammerstang commented on the word cockstride
(noun) - The length of a cock's stride. "The days are getting a cockstride longer." --Thomas Darlington's Folk-Speech of South Cheshire, 1887
February 6, 2018