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To cry coke. To cry peccaʹvi; to ask for mercy. Ruddiman says “coke” is the sound which cocks utter when they are beaten.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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