Cabbage - [kab-ij] Chiefly British 1. a. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. 2. slang - verb. To steal; pilfer: He cabbaged whole yards of cloth.

Cove - (kəʊv) Brit, Austral 1. old-fashioned , slang - a fellow; chap.

Cabbaging Cove: A scoundrel keen on pilfering [from the annals of not-so-distant history]!

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  1. “A Huge Lamp” The marvelous arrangement of lenses and prisms which enables the lighthouse to send out its guiding flashes, with the mechanism for turning it. Made for “Chilang” lighthouse, China. Marvels of Scientific Invention. Thomas W. Corbin, 1917.

    “A Huge Lamp”

    The marvelous arrangement of lenses and prisms which enables the lighthouse to send out its guiding flashes, with the mechanism for turning it. Made for “Chilang” lighthouse, China.

    Marvels of Scientific Invention. Thomas W. Corbin, 1917.

    (Source: archive.org)

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