costard

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But scored him on the costard, and so the jug was broke.

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  1. noun An English variety of large cooking apple.
  2. noun Archaic The human head.

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  1. Middle English, from Old North French, possibly from coste, rib (from its ribbed appearance), from Latin costa; see kost- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English costard, an apple, orig. a ‘ribbed’ apple, a variant (accommodation to -ard) of *costate (first found in later use), from Middle Latin costatus, ribbed, from Latin costa, a rib: see cost, and cf. costate. Cf. also custard, ult. a variant of crustate. See -ard. Hence costard- or costermonger and coster.
 

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