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1. 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. …

2. bou-sprẹ̄t(e, bǒu(e)sprẹ̄t(e n.

Additional spellings: bouspret, bou-sprete, bousprete, bouesprete, bouspret, bouespret, bousprete
15 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. Bowsprit. …

3. bulder n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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A stone worn round, boulder, cobblestone; bulder ston. …

4. chiken n.

49 quotations in 4 senses
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A young chicken; chick, pullet; prob. also any chicken. …

5. 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. …

6. cōl-fox n.

Additional spellings: colfox
5 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A kind of fox with black feet, ears, and tail; (b) as surname. …

7. 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. …

8. 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]. …

9. 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. …

10. flappe n.

10 quotations in 2 senses
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A blow; a stroke (with a weapon or scourge); a buffet or slap (with the hand or fist). …

11. flindre n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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A moth. …

12. fokesail n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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A sail attached to the foremast, a (triangular) foresail. …

13. frise n.(2)

16 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A kind of coarse woolen cloth with a thick nap on one side, frieze; (b) frise ware. …

14. grippel n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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A small ditch or drain. …

15. kebbe n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An old useless cow or sheep; (b) as surname. …

16. kemp(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: kempe
7 quotations in 1 sense
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A container for bulk sale of fish, apparently equal to a barrel; a cask, barrel. …

17. knak(ke n.

Additional spellings: knakke
15 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) An equivocation; deception; stratagem, trick; (b) a joke; (c) knakkes and moues, jeers and grimaces; a knak and a moue, etc. …

18. 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]. …

19. knobel n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A small knot or knob on a root; (b) a swelling, a hump; (c) a thickening of the skin, a callus. …

20. 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. …

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