(a) A bag or sack, with or without its contents; traveling bag, wallet, satchel, pouch; bagge portatif; undo the bagge; (b) a bag as a unit of measure. …

A land tax levied by the Norman kings [orig., either by the Anglo-Saxon kings for defense against the 'Danes', or by the 'Danish' rulers as a tribute]. …

(a) A sack, pouch, bag [in some quots. perhaps a measure of quantity, but see quot.: a1500]; pissinge poke, provande poke, sond poke [see pissinge, provende, sond]; (b) a full, elongated type of……

(a) An accuser; the title of the statute of Edward I appointing justices to hear and determine certain specified offenses by the king's officials and others during the twenty-five years prior to……

(a) A prosecutor in an action for theft; (b) a surety paid for the right to prosecute an action. …

Strife, discord, enmity; a dispute, cause for dispute; a legal dispute or action; o sake, ?in accusation; withouten sake, without cause for dispute, without legal cause. …

(a) A hut, hovel, usu. temporary; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2. 123]; (c) in surnames. …

(a) ?A separate holding, perh. split off from the unified villein's holding; (b) an occupant of such a holding, one of a class of tenant named in records from Northumberland and Cumberland, app. one……

(a) A flat-bottomed boat, barge; (b) shout man, the master of a shoute; also, a sailor on a shoute; also as surname. …

(a) A stream, usu. small; a ditch, trench; ?sich forke, ?a fork for cleaning ditches; (b) a field; sich side, the side of a field; (c) in surnames; (d) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.121-2]. …

A vessel such as a bucket, tub, or vat used to hold milk, dye, beer, etc.; also, a small container for oil [quot.:c1450]. …

(a) A basket for grain, malt, coal, alms, etc.; skep of twig; skep makere; bering skep; (b) a dry measure varying in size, a skepful; (c) skep scales, ?basket-shaped balance pans; (d) in surnames. …

A ship of some kind, esp. a light, fast ship. …

?A plough trace, often of iron. …

(a) A piece of timber used in building; a rafter, beam; a board; -- also coll.; firre sparre; hilinge of sparres, a roof; joininge of sparres, a roof or building; maister sparre, a main beam or……

(a) A kind of battle-ax; double sparth, a two-bladed ax; (b) ?a spear or javelin [quot. ?c1475 in (a) may belong here]. …

(a) A pile, heap, stack; a stack of hay, grain, wood, etc.; also fig.; -- presumably sometimes used as a measure [e.g., quots. 1370, 1391, 1440 Invent.]; as a stak, in a heap; in stak, stacked; (b) in……

(a) A shore; the bank of a river, edge of a pond [last quot. may be error for scath(e n.]; also in proverbs; (b) a dock, wharf, landing place; lond stath, an embankment forming the end of a bridge……

(a) An upright piece of timber used as support in a wall, partition, etc. [quots. ?c1475 and a1500 may belong to sense 4]; stoth nail, nails of some kind used in fastening such timbers; (b) fig. a……

(a) A stake, post; a boundary stake; a gatepost; one of two posts at the entrance of a bridge or stile, across which a chain can be drawn; (b) a prop, support post; also, one of the posts of a cradle……

For all words beginning with sw- from here to the end of this volume [of the print MED], the practice of the MED is to record all variant forms except those beginning with su-; forms with su- are……

(a) A fee paid to a lord or the king for the right to let swine feed in a forest or on a piece of land; a customary fee for the right to keep swine; tak and tol, tol and tak; tak fre, not subject to……

A locker or similar container for the storage of military gear; also, a casket or similar container. …

(a) An administrative division within the Danelaw comprising one-third of a county, a riding; an administrative division in the Danelaw corresponding in size to three or more hundreds; trithing reve……

(a) A division of land; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.245]. …

Entangled (in brambles). …

(a) Law That which washes ashore from the sea, esp. from a wrecked ship; also, the right to take that which washes up on a certain stretch of seashore; ?also, a wrecked ship, a shipwreck [quot……

(a) Tax; a tax, an exaction; also, a royal land tax; also, a sum paid in tax; dane yeld [see dane-geld n.] (b) a customary rent or payment; ?also, quittance or exemption from the obligation to pay……