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carkeys

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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Definition of carkeys

2 senses · 1 part of speech

noun

  1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of carcass.
    “[…] so it is extreme foly for ye mynde, to be slaue vnto fonde affections, and to serue at a becke, the vyle carkeys, neyther the dygnitie of nature, neyther the expresse lawe of god, any thynge regarded.”
    “It was no great thyng foꝛ our loꝛde to reyſe a carkeys that laye .iiii. daies deade, it is a greatter maiſtrie, to reyſe a ſynner, that .xl. yeres lyued not, but laie ſtill ſtinkyng and defyled with all maner of fylthy ſynne.”
    “[…] he turned aſide to ſee the carkeys of the Lyon, and founde of the bellye thereof, a ſwarme of Bees and hony, whereof he tooke in his hande, and went eating to his Father and mother, ⁊ gaue their parte of the Hony.”
    “Your carkeyſes ſhall fall in this wilderneſſe, and all you that were counted through all your numbers, from twentie yeere olde and aboue, which haue murmured againſt me, […]”
    “But then followd a wonderfull thing: for this bloodlesse carkeys return'd to life, and resuming its former strength, came out of the sepulcher which remaind seald as before.”
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noun

  1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of carcass.
    “[…] so it is extreme foly for ye mynde, to be slaue vnto fonde affections, and to serue at a becke, the vyle carkeys, neyther the dygnitie of nature, neyther the expresse lawe of god, any thynge regarded.”
    “It was no great thyng foꝛ our loꝛde to reyſe a carkeys that laye .iiii. daies deade, it is a greatter maiſtrie, to reyſe a ſynner, that .xl. yeres lyued not, but laie ſtill ſtinkyng and defyled with all maner of fylthy ſynne.”
    “[…] he turned aſide to ſee the carkeys of the Lyon, and founde of the bellye thereof, a ſwarme of Bees and hony, whereof he tooke in his hande, and went eating to his Father and mother, ⁊ gaue their parte of the Hony.”
    “Your carkeyſes ſhall fall in this wilderneſſe, and all you that were counted through all your numbers, from twentie yeere olde and aboue, which haue murmured againſt me, […]”
    “But then followd a wonderfull thing: for this bloodlesse carkeys return'd to life, and resuming its former strength, came out of the sepulcher which remaind seald as before.”
  2. (form-of, plural)plural of carkey

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