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1. alster adj.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Belonging to a particular variety of fine cloth; also as noun. …

2. 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. …

3. 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. …

4. bǒunsen v.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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To beat (sb.), thump. …

5. 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. …

6. braulen v.(1)

16 quotations in 3 senses
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To raise a clamor, talk loudly, speak out; shout at (an animal). …

7. bulder n.

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

8. chiken n.

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

9. choppen v.(1)

21 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To strike (sb.) with a sharp weapon, slash; choppen of cut off with a blow; (b) to hack or strike (at, to sb.); cut (through sth.); (c) to hit (at sth.); choppen adoun, fig. strike (sb.) down. …

10. 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. …

11. 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. …

12. 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. …

13. 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]. …

14. drullen v.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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?To feel dizzy, stagger; ?to drool. …

15. 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. …

16. 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). …

17. flappen v.

17 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To beat or strike (something); to slap at (flies); flappen on, to beat (someone), to thresh (grain); flappen in sonder, to slash in two; flappen at, to strike at; (b) flappen with hond, to clap……

18. flindre n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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A moth. …

19. fokesail n.

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

20. fǒmelen v.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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To make a groping movement (with the fingers), to grope. …

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