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costards

costards is the plural of costard.

Meaning of costard

Noun

costard (plural costards)

  1. (UK) A large cooking apple.
  2. The tree on which large cooking apples grow.
  3. (archaic, humorous) The human head.
    • Take him ouer the coſtard with the hilts of thy ſword,
      And then we wil chop him in the malmſey
      But in the next roome.c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC...

Questions about costards

What is costards the plural of?
Costards is the plural of costard.

Words near costards in the dictionary

  1. costapalmately
  2. costar
  3. costard
  4. costardmonger
  5. costardmongers
  6. costards
  7. costarred
  8. costarring
  9. costars
  10. COSTART
  11. costas

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