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Thread #19417   Message #1894357
Posted By: GUEST
28-Nov-06 - 04:43 AM
Thread Name: Penguin: Lovely Joan
Subject: RE: Penguin: Lovely Joan
Pook - a cock of hay (Somerset)
To pook hay or barley - to make it up into cocks
(Dictionary of Archaic and Provintial Words, Halliwell, 1901).
Jim Carroll