- 04.001 But most of the paths were cheats
- 05.077 were afraid to cheat when they played at it.
- 06.095 we are glad to cheat the goblins of their sport,
word
Char
- 13.046 charred and decaying.
Champ
- 04.013 and champing
- 05.030 First they champ,
Cavern-mouth
Constructed of one uncommon and one common word! This one is not attested in OED as a hyphenated word at all, or even as a compound word. JRRT gets the credit for our purposes.
- 09.004 He did not at all like the look of the cavern-mouth,
Cavern
- 01.073 To dungeons deep and caverns old
- 01.077 To dungeons deep and caverns old
- 01.082 and caverns dim
- 01.083 in dark caverns.
- 01.144 To dungeons deep and caverns old
- 03.037 in the deserted caverns of the mines of Moria,
- 04.022 when they stumbled into a big cavern.
- 04.024 and dragged them to the far end of the cavern
- 04.035 in the cavern went out,
- 09.053 Leave the halls and caverns deep,
- 11.008 and see the dark cavernous opening
- 13.050 of the dragon-haunted caverns,
- 15.026 They explored the caverns once more,
- 15.041 Come back unto the caverns old’!
Cavalcade
- 02.042 not if the whole cavalcade had passed two feet off.
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.
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