"costard" meaning in English

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      "glosses": [
        "A large cooking apple."
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        "(British) A large cooking apple."
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        "The tree on which large cooking apples grow."
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          "text": "Take him ouer the coſtard with the hilts of thy ſword,\n And then we wil chop him in the malmſey\n But in the next roome.",
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          "text": "Good Gentleman goe your gate, and let poore volke paſſe: and ’chud ha’ bin zwaggerd out of my life, ’twould not ha’bin zo long as ’tis, by a vortnight. Nay, come not neere th’old man: keepe out che vor’ye, or ice try whither your Coſtard, or my Ballow be the harder; chill be plaine with you.",
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        "The human head."
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        "(archaic, humorous) The human head."
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        "A large cooking apple."
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        "(British) A large cooking apple."
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          "text": "Good Gentleman goe your gate, and let poore volke paſſe: and ’chud ha’ bin zwaggerd out of my life, ’twould not ha’bin zo long as ’tis, by a vortnight. Nay, come not neere th’old man: keepe out che vor’ye, or ice try whither your Coſtard, or my Ballow be the harder; chill be plaine with you.",
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