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billycock
billycock (ˈbɪlɪkɒk) [App. the same as bully-cocked, used 1721, prob. meaning ‘cocked after the fashion of the bullies’ or hectoring blades of the period: see bully and cocked.] A colloquial term for a round low-crowned felt hat worn by men, and sometimes also by young women. Also attrib.1721 Amhers...
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Billycock Hill
Billycock Hill () is a rounded, ice-covered hill in Antarctica, which rises to and projects above the surrounding ice sheet. States Antarctic Service, 1939–41, it was re-surveyed in 1946 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, and named by them for its resemblance to a billycock
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Five Go to Billycock Hill
Five Go to Billycock Hill is the sixteenth novel in the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1957. Plot
The Five are camping on Billycock Hill, near the farm of Toby, a boy who loves jokes and pranks.
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deer-stalker
ˈdeer-ˌstalker [See stalk v.] 1. One who stalks deer; a sportsman who furtively approaches the deer, so as to get within shooting-distance without being discovered.1830–35 D. Booth Analyt. Dict. Eng. Lang. 257 In the woodcraft of former times, many devices for catching deer were employed by the deer...
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Michael Kerrigan
1996)
"Five Run Away Together" (1996)
"Five Go to Mystery Moor" (1996)
"Five Go Adventuring Again" (1997)
"Five on a Secret Trail" (1997)
"Five Go to Billycock
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Waterbury
Waterbury (ˈwɔːtəbərɪ) The name of a town in Connecticut, U.S.A., used attrib. or absol. to designate a low-priced watch or clock of a type manufactured there.1884 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 6 May 526/1 The Waterbury Watch Company, Waterbury, Conn. Application filed July 21, 1883. ‘The words...
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Whitsun
by Denton Welch concerns the author's near-fatal bike accident and its aftermath, which occurred on a Whitsun holiday.
1957: Enid Blyton's Five Go to Billycock
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boxer
▪ I. boxer1 (ˈbɒksə(r)) [f. box v.1 + -er1.] One who puts things up in boxes.1871 Echo 8 Feb., The material passes..through the hands of..an ‘examiner’, and..a ‘boxer’.▪ II. ˈboxer2 [f. box v.2 + -er1.] 1. One who boxes or fights with his fists; a pugilist.1742 Fielding J. Andrews iii. ix, A stout f...
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The Famous Five (1995 TV series)
12 January 1997)
Five Go Off in a Caravan (19 January 1997)
Five Get into a Fix (26 January 1997)
Five Are Together Again (2 February 1997)
Five Go to Billycock Hill (part 1) (9 February 1997)
Five Go to Billycock Hill (part 2) (16 February 1997)
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lounge
▪ I. lounge, n. (laʊndʒ) [f. lounge v.] 1. a. An act, spell, or course of lounging; a leisurely walk, a saunter, stroll; also, a lounging gait or manner of reclining.1806 T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. II. 177 The gentlemen had arranged a morning lounge at Tattersall's. 1824 T. Hook Say. & Doings I. 18 ...
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Gretchen Franklin
Franklin also played the troubled mother Mrs Janes in an episode of the television adaptation of Enid Blyton's Famous Five ("Five on Billycock Hill", 1978
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hat
▪ I. hat, n. (hæt) Forms: 1 hæt, hætt, 3–8 hatt(e, 6 (haitte, atte), 3– hat. [OE. hæt, cognate with OFris. hat, north. Fris. hat, hatt, hood, head-covering; ON. hǫttr (genit. hattar, dat. hetti):—*hattuz, later nom. hattr, hood, cowl, turban, Sw. hatt, Da. hat, hatte- hat: cf. also Icel. hetta (:—*h...
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Geoffrey Bayldon
1977) as Great Man
The Duchess of Duke Street ("Shadows", 1977) as Collinghurst
Sky Hunter (1978) as Mr Charles Trim
The Famous Five ("Five Go to Billycock
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Bowler hat
The bowler hat, also known as a Coke hat, billycock, bob hat, bombín (Spanish) or derby (United States), is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown, originally
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Branxholm, Tasmania
The event distances range from 56 km to 2 km, from Scottsdale township to the top of Billycock Hill and return.
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