- 02.042 not if the whole cavalcade had passed two feet off.
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Casket
- 17.003 bore a strong casket of iron-bound wood.
- 17.008 and at the same moment the old man opened the casket
- 17.016 The old man with the casket
Cask
- 09.046 You have stacked some full casks here
- 09.056 and bumping mass of casks
- 09.061 swept all the company of casks
- 09.064 in time to get on to the mass of casks
- 10.009 and take some of the casks away,
- 10.013 with plenty of straw into smaller casks,
Casks were left out of our first consideration of food, but if tobacco-jars are in, certainly casks should be!
Carve
- 01.078 Goblets they carved there for themselves
- 01.122 and carvings
- 09.005 sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood.
- 09.005 in his hand he held a carven staff of oak.
- 10.035 The King of carven stone,
- 12.096 hammered and carven with birds
- 13.048 carved and made straight
- 13.048 still showing the fragments of old carven work within,
Carrion
Derived through Middle French from a Romanic root something like *carnio, flesh. While one meaning of “carrion” is specifically rotting flesh that is unfit to eat, adjectivally it indicates beings which eat or use that same rotting flesh. One bird’s squick is another bird’s squee…
- 15.002 and far off there are many carrion birds
- 15.019 and carrion birds are with them hoping for battle
“carrion, n. and adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 28 July 2015.
Cargo
- 10.034 to cargoes and gold,
10.038 and of cargoes of rich presents
10.040 up the Forest River with their cargoes,
Caress
- 13.032 caressing and fingering them.
Carcase
- 14.043 that fell from his rotting carcase.
(The American spelling of this word is “carcass”.)
Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. Various dates May, June, and July, 2015.
Carc
Say it aloud! This name is a sound-play word – hinting that the Raven language is still spoken all around us and we have lost the wit to understand.
Tolkien writes in his Essay on Phonetic Symbolism about the origin of this name – and of his father’s
rook is no longer krāg or krāk or χrk from which it took its use.
- 15.010 old Carc
- 15.014 I am Roäc son of Carc.
- 15.014 Carc is dead,
- 15.021 Roäc Carc’s son.
Tolkien, J. R. R.. A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages (Kindle Locations 1954-1955). HarperCollins Publishers. Kindle Edition.
Caper
From capriole, a skip or leap, still used of horses.
- 15.016 and began to caper about for joy.
Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary. Web.
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