cag
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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There's a cag of small swipes half as sour as a wig.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by Clare, John
The cove carries the cag; the man is vexed or sullen.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis
Providentially a small barrel of water, a cag of wine, some biscuit, and a few muskets and cartouch boxes, had been thrown into the boat.
From Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 by Thomson, Basil
Send you a goose, a pair of chicken, Whose bones you are so fond of picking; And often too a cag of brandy!
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
“He’ve been a scrattin about at all the butchers’, and buying up weighs of cag mag as they couldn’t sell.
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
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