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Co·chin 1

 (kō′chĭn)
1. A former kingdom of southern India on the Malabar Coast of the Arabian Sea. Rising to regional prominence after the 12th century, the kingdom fell under European domination beginning in the 16th century.
2. See Kochi.
[Ultimately from Portuguese Cochim, from Malayalam Kocci, Kochi.]

Co·chin 2

 (kō′chĭn)
n.
A large domestic chicken of a breed developed in Asia, having thickly feathered legs. Also called Cochin China, Shanghai.
[After Cochin China1.]
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Cochin

(ˈkəʊtʃɪn; ˈkɒtʃ-)
n
1. (Placename) a region and former state of SW India: part of Kerala state since 1956
2. (Placename) a port in SW India, on the Malabar Coast: the first European settlement in India, founded by Vasco da Gama in 1502: shipbuilding, engineering. Pop: 596 473 (2001). Local official name: Kochi
3. (Breeds) a large breed of domestic fowl, with dense plumage and feathered legs, that originated in Cochin China
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co•chin

(ˈkoʊ tʃɪn, ˈkɒtʃ ɪn)

n.
an Asian chicken, resembling the Brahma but slightly smaller.
[1850–55; short for Cochin-China fowl]

Co•chin

(ˈkoʊ tʃɪn)

n.
a seaport in W Kerala, in SW India: first European fort in India, built by Portuguese 1503. 686,000.
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Noun1.cochin - Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legscochin - Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs
cochin china
domestic fowl, fowl, poultry - a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
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The captain as often as possible put up his sails, and under the double action of steam and sail the vessel made rapid progress along the coasts of Anam and Cochin China.
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My partner endeavoured to encourage me by describing the several ports of that coast, and told me he would put in on the coast of Cochin China, or the bay of Tonquin, intending afterwards to go to Macao, where a great many European families resided, and particularly the missionary priests, who usually went thither in order to their going forward to China.
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The birds that the two girls had brought in were duly returned to the yard, and the process was repeated till all the pet cocks and hens had been submitted to the old woman--Hamburghs, Bantams, Cochins, Brahmas, Dorkings, and such other sorts as were in fashion just then--her perception of each visitor being seldom at fault as she received the bird upon her knees.
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"I don't want no more stone-ballast hove at us 'long o' your calm' Miquelon boats 'footy cochins,' same's you did off Le Have."
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Earlier, the Cochin Port Trust had decided to contribute Rs6.2 million (Dh22.76 million) comprising Rs3.1 million from employees' one day salary and Rs3.1 million from Cochin Port Trust fund to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund.
More relief materials arrive at Cochin port
Muscat: Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) has halted its arrival operations on Thursday in view of possible inundation in the airport area, following a rise in water level of the Periyar river.
Arrivals at this Indian airport have been halted
Summary: Cochin (Kerala) [India], Jul 13 (ANI): Few runway lights at the Cochin International Airport (CIAL) were damaged after a Qatar Airways flight veered off the runway earlier on Friday.
Kochi airport runway lights damaged
Kunal Shanker as the Executive Assistant Manager of Holiday Inn Cochin.
Kunal Shanker appointed as Executive Assistant Manager at Holiday Inn Cochin
Summary: Hundreds of passengers bound for Cochin, India, were stranded for hours as Emirates, Etihad and Air India Express flights experienced disruptions and delays following the temporary closure of Cochin airport on Monday morning.
Flights from UAE delayed as Cochin airport closes
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners plans to modify and expand the existing Cochin Pipeline system to provide a solution for trans porting NGLs from the Marcellus Shale Basin to fractionation plants and chemical markets near Sarnia, Ontario, and Chicago.
Kinder Morgan announces Cochin Pipeline expansion plans
Summary: Kochi (Kerala) [India], May 28 (ANI): Srilankan Airlines flight UL-168 on Sunday cross-landed, off-centered off the runway at Cochin airport by one meter putting lives of 227 passengers at risk.
Sri Lankan plane cross-landed at Cochin airport

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