cuspate

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An' let me see—there's the thorn where the cushats biggit; an' there's the auld birk that I ance fell aff an' left my shoe sticking i' the cleft.

From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel

It lies just in the bosom of woods, too, in the centre of a lovely haugh, where the river soughs along, like the echo of the cooing of the cushats in the plantations.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various

No bad thing is a cold pigeon-pie, especially of cushats.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John

Come, my cushats, Larks, yellow-hammers, fern-owls, Oh, come in, Come in, my Dian's foresters, and drown us With may, with blossoming may!

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred

Young cushats and cushats' eggs can be obtained from their wicker-like nests, and sold in the villages.

From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous