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1. bolken v.

22 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To belch; retch, vomit; vomit (sth.); (b) to cast forth (sth.), cast up; pour out (one's blood), bleed to death; of a garner: spill over, be full to bursting.

2. bǒu(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: boue
3 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The bow of a ship; (b) in name of ship.

3. chough(e n.

Additional spellings: choughe
20 quotations in 1 sense
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One of several birds of the crow family: chough, jackdaw, jay; Cornish chough; co-brid.

4. cọ̄te n.(4)

12 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A diving water bird; esp., the common, or bald, coot (Fulica atra); as balled as a cote, as cursed as a cote; (b) the sea gull.

5. dod(de n.

Additional spellings: dodde
7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A measure of grain [more than a quarter]; (b) dod-corn, a manorial rent; (c) as surname and in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.133].

6. dwẹ̄re n.

16 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Doubt, perplexity, uncertainty; in (a) dwere, in doubt; without dwere, without question, certainly; (b) ?disagreement, dissension; ?distress, trouble; (c) amazement, awe; dread, fear.

7. hurkelen v.

8 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To nestle, crouch; (b) hurkelen doun with hed, to bend the head down, cower; (c) to rest, lie; (d) hurkelen up, ?to stand up; (e) in surnames [see Smith PNElem. 1.260-1].

8. knarre n.

19 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A crag, twisted rock; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.102].

9. lē̆ng(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: lenge
31 quotations in 1 sense
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The European ling Molva molva; also, any fish of the genus Molva; gret leng, a full-grown ling; leng fish, a ling; whit leng, ?white ling [?error for whiting]; leng drie, dried lings.

10. lumpe n.

33 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A mass of material, usually of no special shape; a piece, lump; lumpe ston, ?an unfinished stone; lumpe of a wal, ?a buttress; in (on) a lumpe, in one piece, in a heap; fallen as it were a lumpe

11. tiken v.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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To touch or pat a person as part of a game, dally frivolously.

12. tinklen v.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To have a sensation of slight stings or pricks; of the ears: have a sensation of ringing; (b) of a cymbal: to tinkle, ring lightly; tinklen up, of a drum: resound.

13. wẹ̄veling n.

13 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. A piece of caulking material placed between the lapstrakes while the ship is under construction;—also coll.