ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Carkeys

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Carkeys is a noun meaning plural of carkey.

Meaning

plural of carkey.

More Meanings

  1. Obsolete form of carcass.

Example Sentences

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.
[…] 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.
[…] 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.

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