cabbage
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Cargil and his son, Ryan, had spent months nursing crops of cabbage and onions to harvest.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Much of the menu is prepared over a live hearth, and traditional Polish dishes sit alongside inventive creations like duck confit cabbage rolls and pork belly pączki.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
On a recent morning, Nones took photos for a cookbook, shooting portraits of residents who submitted recipes for Romanian stuffed cabbage and gumbo, coaching them from his chair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
"Genetic diversity is a resource for us too as humans, especially the wild relatives of crops. We've got quite a few in Wales, like sea radish, sea carrot, sea cabbage," said Kevin.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
Abu Hamra didn’t like you to peel back the outer layer of a cabbage to peek inside.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
But, worse . . . state and city officials have cabbaged on to this beautiful protective machinery we have placed in their hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
In an evil moment he "cabbaged" some cloth, was detected, tried, condemned, and sentenced to twenty months' imprisonment.
From Prisoner for Blasphemy by G. W. (George William) Foote
All except one—that one lay in the plate of the man from whom I had cabbaged the lot.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
They run out of all they cabbaged here perty quick.
From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee
To have cabbaged at one time all the sail-cloth that was required would have risked discovery; they therefore appropriated small scraps each day, and sewed these neatly together until they had enough.
From The Battle and the Breeze by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
And what a touching sight it is of a Saturday afternoon to see the poor, careworn clergymen gathered together in that vast reading—room cabbaging sermons for Sunday.
From Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain
The next step I took was to order William Francis, John Thompson, Samuel Picket, and Joshua Peck to be taken into custody, on their return from cabbaging.
From An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter
Does not this look very much like what we call "cabbaging?"
From Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various
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