coxes

It's still there, with its 40 rooms, eight acres, volleyball/tennis court and orchards full of coxes, bramleys and russets – and it's still a commune, though they struggle a bit to find new recruits these days.

'It was an amazing way to grow up' Sally Weale 2010

Kerron, rowers and coxes are not asked to take part on account of their common sense and social skills, they are asked to take part because they are good.

Some Toffs beat Some Other Toffs, Ra! Kerron Cross 2006

The standard of posh swearing from the coxes wasn't quite up to the standard of Oxford's Acer last year - but the supporters general horsey-ness made up for any disappointment in that particular area.

Archive 2006-04-01 Kerron Cross 2006

(Incidentally, I should have no such career possibility today: one consequence of the gender-integration of the Oxford colleges which took place in the 70's is that the coxes of college eights are now, for obvious reasons, almost invariably female).

Anthony J. Leggett - Autobiography 2004

The standard of posh swearing from the coxes wasn't quite up to the standard of Oxford's Acer last year - but the supporters general horsey-ness made up for any disappointment in that particular area.

Some Toffs beat Some Other Toffs, Ra! Kerron Cross 2006

But all the same, if a very small man goes up to Oxford and guesses that it will be his fate to steer slow eights during the time he is there, I should advise him to start a society for the protection of coxes, and elect himself the first president.

Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904

I have been strolling half the afternoon along the river bank, watching the boats passing up and down; hearing the shrill cries of coxes, the measured plash of oars, the rhythmical rattle of rowlocks, intermingled at intervals with the harsh grinding of the chain - ferries.

From a College Window Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

When coxes catch a man fouling them, their language is apt to be highly unparliamentary.

Philistia Grant Allen 1873

Observe this "podcast within a podcast" where Edward finally coxes a story about his recent meeting with Patti Smith and a

The Freak Network I'm going to Kill You! 2010

New women's coach John Keogh, an Australian, says he's worked with other coxes, but

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