Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which crowns or completes.
- noun A coroner. See
coroner . - noun Same as
croonach .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, crowns.
- noun Prov. Eng. or Scot. A coroner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
crowns . - noun obsolete, UK, Scotland
coroner
Etymologies
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Examples
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'crowner's quest-law,' he is only parodying, and that closely, a scarcely less ludicrous judgment which had actually been pronounced, not long before, in the Court of Queen's Bench.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852 Various 1841
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He is sitting this minute with the crowner, and they are not to be disturbed.
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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WV - crowner - if I knew the baker, I'd crowner queen of the lolspeak cakes!
Halloween Heckling 2009
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He is sitting this minute with the crowner, and they are not to be disturbed.
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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“Yes, I know you told the crowner you found it whilst going down to the river for water,” broke in Will, all impatience.
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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“Yes, I know you told the crowner you found it whilst going down to the river for water,” broke in Will, all impatience.
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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Anyway, the crowner in the story about Luis Carrion is that he's probably this month starting his studies at Harvard's J.F.K. School of Government and Economics.
Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America 1991
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'Robert,' I says to meself, 'Robert,' I sez, 'did you ever' appen to see a poachin 'cove in a bell-crowner afore?
The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915
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"Because, if you 'adn't' appened to be a-wearin 'that there bell-crowner, and I' adn't 'appened to be of a argifyin' and inquirin 'turn o' mind, I should ha 'filled you full o' buckshot."
The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915
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And, when I had gone on some distance, I took off that which the man had called a "bell-crowner," and bestowed upon it a touch, and looked at it as I had never done before; and there was gratitude in look and touch, for tonight it had, indeed, stood my friend.
The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915
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