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crook-neck
ˈcrook-neck U.S. [crook n. C.] A name given to varieties of squash (Cucurbita maxima) having the neck or narrow basal part recurved.1848 Lowell Biglow P. Poems 1890 II. 10 Agin' the chimbly crooknecks hung. 1860 Emerson Cond. Life, Wealth (1861) 66 The cantelopes, crook-necks, and cucumbers. Oxford English Dictionary
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crook-necked
crook-necked, a. Having a crooked neck; spec. U.S., applied to a variety of squash (cf. crook-neck and crooked a. 5 b).a 1529 Skelton El. Rummyng 427 Croke necked like an owl. 1818 Massachusetts Spy 11 Nov. (Th.), Upwards of ten tons of the best crook-necked winter Squashes. 1945 New Eng. Homestead ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Pa-cha
In one hand, he carries a crook-neck pumpkin where he puts the locusts in order to kill them. wikipedia.org
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crooked
crooked, a. (ˈkrʊkɪd) Forms: 3–6 croked, 4–6 -id, -yd, (4 kr-), 5 cruked, (crowkyt), 6 Sc. crukit, 7 (Shaks.) crook'd, 4– crooked. [Partly pa. pple. of crook v., partly f. crook n. + -ed, as in hunched, etc.: the formation from the n. may even have been the earlier.] 1. a. Bent from the straight for... Oxford English Dictionary
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cushaw
cushaw U.S. (kəˈʃɔː, ˈkʌʃɔː) Also cashaw. [perh. Algonquin.] A winter crookneck squash, or a variety of this.1588 T. Harriot Briefe & True Rep. of Virginia sig. c4v, Coscushaw, some of our company tooke to bee that kinde of roote which the Spaniards in the West Indies call Cassauy. 1698 G. Thomas Pe... Oxford English Dictionary
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crook
▪ I. crook, n. and a. (krʊk) Forms: 3–4 croc, 3–6 croke, 4–5 Sc. and north. cruk, 4–6 crok, kroke, 5–6 cruke, 5–8 crooke, 6–9 Sc. cruik, 4– crook. [ME. crōk, crōc, app. a. ON. krókr (Sw. krok, Da. krog) crook, hook, barb, trident; unknown elsewhere in Teutonic, but app. belonging to the same ablaut ... Oxford English Dictionary
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squash
▪ I. squash, n.1 (skwɒʃ) [Related to, or directly from, squash v.1] I. 1. a. The unripe pod of a pea. Also applied contemptuously to persons. Obs. exc. arch.1590 Shakes. Mids. N. iii. i. 191, I pray you commend mee to mistresse Squash, your mother, and to master Peascod your father. 1601 ― Twel. N. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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