COKERNUT

Etymology

This spelling was introduced by the London customhouse to distinguish more widely between this and other articles spelt much in the same manner.

Noun

cokernut (plural cokernuts)

Archaic form of coconut.

Source: Wiktionary


Co"ker*nut`, n. (Com.)

Definition: The cocoanut.

Note: A mode of spelling introduced by the London customhouse to distinguish more widely between this and other articles spelt much in the same manner.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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