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1 [1697] 1987 WILLIAMS 105 There would be many like Trevorgy of the Board of Trade who believed that the planters 'should not exceed 1,000' because they were 'too well acquainted with roast beef but not with the virtues of codsheads and sounds.'
2 Comb ~-bone.
1984 KELLAND 152 Then there were four splitting tables on which the upper portion of the fishes' back bones (common called sound bones) were dexterously removed with square topped knives.
