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  • noun One of several decorative rings around the barrel of a cannon; the next ring from the muzzle backwards.

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Examples

  • Let us hope cornwall doesn, t go the same way as kosovo, because you know what? the cornish are a majority in Cornwall.

    Serbianna.com 2009

  • There was a succulent chicken (a cornish hen) with deliciously cooked onions and portabella mushrooms swimming in the seasoned roasted chicken juices in the pan above.

    Archives: (Christine’s) Sunday Night Whole Roasted Chicken : The Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz 2009

  • There was a succulent chicken (a cornish hen) with deliciously cooked onions and portabella mushrooms swimming in the seasoned roasted chicken juices in the pan above.

    2009 November : The Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz 2009

  • I used up all my energy making cornish pasties some for tonight, some to eat tomorrow and Tuesday so I can do bunches and bunches of work, annotating a text and getting my emails down to under seventy must-be-answereds.

    Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009

  • Chris P.who at night “dreams of opening a cornish pasty food cart” shares his favorites of 2008, in the ongoing Employee Top 5 series

    Weekend Roundup - Reading Local: Portland 2009

  • Unfortunately, a roasted cornish game hen ($16) was dry; its bread salad, limp and soggy.

    Ed Levine: Recipe for Success? 2009

  • Common fish include tiger fish Hydrocynus vittatus, bream Tilapia spp., vundu Heterobranchus longifilis, nkupi Distichodus mossambicus, chessa D. schenga, cornish jack Mormyropsanguilloides, and lungfish Protopterus annectens.

    Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas, Zimbabwe 2009

  • I used up all my energy making cornish pasties some for tonight, some to eat tomorrow and Tuesday so I can do bunches and bunches of work, annotating a text and getting my emails down to under seventy must-be-answereds.

    gillpolack: Today is a tired day. I used up all my gillpolack 2009

  • For food, I enjoyed the cornish pasty at the British pub (Ye Olde King's Head) the most.

    Fare Dr. Lisa 2007

  • But my favorite form of outdoor cooking was my barrel smoker on which I made killer baby-back ribs, awesome pulled pork, luscious salmon, succulent cornish hens, and wonderful turkeys.

    Ingredient: Dry Vermouth 2009

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