Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cockchafer, Melolontha vulgaris. Also called
ocub .
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_West_ of the Parret this insect is called _wock-web_, oak-web, because it infests the _oak_, and spins its web on it in great numbers.
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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The common beetle called cockchafer is here known only as the _oak-web_, and a smaller beetle as _fern-web_.
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