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| chymist¹ | Chymist- a chemists. The quotations cited by the OED imply that the modern form "chemist" was adopted c1800
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| cit¹ | Cit - Short for citizen; usually applied, more or less contemptuously, to a townsman or 'cockney' as distinguished from a countryman, or to a tradesman or shopkeeper as distinguished from a gentleman [OED]
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| clam(1) | Starve
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| clart¹ | Meaning uncertain. Possibly "an instrument for clearing the bars of a furnace of slag, cinders, ashes" [Dictionary of the Scots Language]
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| clinker | Solid waste left by the burning of coal [CPB]
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| cloot¹ | A rag, a piece of cloth; a cloth, often such as is used for housework dict sctos lang [Dictionary of the Scots Language]
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| Clover (in or on) |
to live (or be) in clover : to live luxuriously [OED]
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| clown² | one of the characters in a pantomime or harlequinade [OED]; a jester making jokes and playing pranks often at the expense of the other cahracters, especially Pantaloon. [CPB]
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| clown¹ | A countryman, rustic, or peasant. |
| clubman¹ | Probably a tallyman: One who carries on a tally-trade, or supplies goods on credit, to be paid for by instalments
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| Clubs¹ | Probably some sort of commercial association
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| coach-box¹ | The seat occupied by the driver of a coach [OED]
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| coachee | Coachman [OED]
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| coal_heaver¹ | Coal Heaver: A person employed in moving or carrying coal. Sometimes: specifically. a dock worker who unloads coal by shovelling it in stages from the lower levels of a ship up to the deck. [OED]
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coal_heavers¹ |
| cocky¹ | Diminutive of cock: a term of endearment [OED]
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cockie¹ |
| coke |
The solid substance left after mineral coal has been deprived by dry distillation of its volatile constituents. OED. Coke was an important industrial fuel.
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| cold_collation¹ | A collation or lunch consisting entirely of things that have been prepared with heat, and afterwards allowed to cool. [OED]
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| collier¹ | A vessel used for carrying coal [CPB]
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| Come to the day(1) | arrive at the surface (Collieries of North East England).
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| comfortable(1) | A type of covered wherry
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comfortables |