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[
kawr
-bee
]
cor·bie
/
ˈkɔr
bi
/
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[
kawr
-bee
]
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noun
Scot.
a raven or crow.
Origin:
1150–1200;
Middle English
corbin
<
Old French
<
Latin
corvīnus
corvine
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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corbie
(ˈkɔːbɪ,
Scottish
ˈkɔːrbɪ)
—
n
raven
a Scot name for
crow
[C15: from Old French
corbin,
from Latin
corvīnus
corvine
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
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CORBIE definition
language
An early system on the
IBM 704
.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959].
(1996-05-10)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010
http://foldoc.org
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