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806. wīlde brēde phr. & n.
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Roasted game; also, ?coll. game animals [2nd quot.].
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811. wī̆nd-barǧe n.
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windbarge
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Arch. A piece of timber or stone prob. covering the joint between the gable edge and the roof and serving as protection from the wind, a bargeboard.
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817. wōde-asshe n.
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wodeasshe
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Coll. and pl. A form of crude potash rich in mineral salts, from which dyers and others could produce a lye;—in most cases prob. the substance obtained by burning woad plants (Isatis tinctoria)……
818. wọ̄de-wāle n.(1)
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wodewale
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Any of several varieties of bird, esp. the green woodpecker (Picus viridis) and the rarer golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus), with which, in its female and immature forms, the former may readily be……