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Definition of Costard
1. n. An apple, large and round like the head.
Definition of Costard
1. Noun. (British) a large cooking apple ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Costard
1. a large cooking apple [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Costard
Literary usage of Costard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"Undoubtedly costard with the final rf elided. The name without prefix is found in
... John costard, co. Lint-, 20 Edw. IR Thomas costard, 1379: PT Yorks, p. ..."
2. The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1900)
"But last comes one who " hight costard": and here we are posed indeed. Can this
be Shakespeare's costard — everybody's costard — the costard of " Love's ..."
3. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"Among his S. and E. country words, Ray has " costard, the head. ... Nares shows
that costard is used by Ben Jonson and B. and Fletcher. ..."
4. Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As by Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1908)
"What proof has the nineteenth century that he did it, or could have done it ?
So much for Brettell and Mauduit. But last comes one who " hight costard": ..."
5. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"TV* hardly regard this aa an obsolete word : yet it is never used пот, except in
an appropriated sense; a* cricket-bat. I'll try whether your costard or my ..."
6. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"The "costard-monger" that Morose dreaded, still lives amongst us, and is still
noisy. He bawls so loud even to this day, that he puts his hand behind his ..."
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