- 11.032 and head cocked on one side,
- 12.082 with his head cocked on one side,
- 12.098 with one ear cocked
- 15.004 then he cocked his head on one side,
Author: lfsaldenbirch
Cobweb
“Cobweb” is probably the source of the rare word “cob”, which means “spider”. The root of that syllable is “cop”, to grab or capture.
- 08.003 The nastiest things they saw were the cobwebs:
- 08.003 dark dense cobwebs with threads extraordinarily thick,
- 08.101 in your cobwebs crazy.
“† cob, n.4.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, September 2015. Web. 4 October 2015.
Cob
The meaning “spider” has been attested since the 1600s, but the OED conjectures that it is a back formation from “Cobweb”, with roots meaning “grab” ultimately the same as the slang word “cop” for “police officer”.
- 08.100 Lazy Lob and crazy Cob
“† cob, n.4.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, September 2015. Web. 4 October 2015.
Coalmining
- 01.124 often enough sinking as low as blacksmith-work or even coalmining.
Coal-black
Entered exactly this way in OED.
- 07.093 led by a large coal-black ram.
“coal-black, adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Clutch
- 07.004 and to let go his clutch just a tiny bit.
- 08.031 with one hand clutching the rope
- 12.017 but still he clutched the cup,
Clumsy
- 08.032 and Bombur’s clumsiness,
Clump
- 02.034 They moved to a clump of trees,
Clue-Finder
- 12.052 I am the clue-finder,
As with most names and titles in the work, there is no reference in OED, and it is now classed as JRRT original.
Clover
- 07.025 Especially there was clover,
- 07.025 waving patches of cockscomb clover,
- 07.025 and purple clover,
- 07.025 and wide stretches of short white sweet honey-smelling clover.
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