Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A children's game in which plantain-stems are the weapons, the object aimed at being to strike off the head. Compare
cocks .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Bot.) The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (
Plantago Lanceolata ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
kemp .
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Examples
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We just got back from an awesome and long day in the village, and in the in between times we've played the game without a name, kemps, push, poke, freeze, and we at ice cream!
Goat Cup A. Bennett 2007
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We just got back from an awesome and long day in the village, and in the in between times we've played the game without a name, kemps, push, poke, freeze, and we at ice cream!
Archive 2007-08-01 A. Bennett 2007
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That saw Beaumains, and therewithal he alighted, and they rushed together like two mighty kemps a long while, and sore they bled both.
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That saw Beaumains, and therewithal he alighted, and they rushed together like two mighty kemps a long while, and sore they bled both.
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The kemps ridley is the most endangered turtle of all, after a half century of nursing.
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