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cony-catches

cony-catches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cony-catch.

Meaning of cony-catch

Verb

cony-catch (third-person singular simple present cony-catches, present participle cony-catching, simple past and past participle cony-caught)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To trick, cheat.
    • But those that gull and conicatch us with the assurance of an extraordinary facultie […] ought to be double punished.1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Questions about cony-catches

What is cony-catches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cony-catches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cony-catch.

Words near cony-catches in the dictionary

  1. cony
  2. cony wool
  3. cony-catch
  4. cony-catcher
  5. cony-catchers
  6. cony-catches
  7. cony-catching
  8. cony-gry
  9. Conybeare
  10. Conybeares
  11. conycatcher

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