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1. bēm-filling ger.

Additional spellings: bemfilling
10 quotations in 1 sense
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Arch. The process of filling the spaces between the timbers of a building; also, the masonry or other structures or materials filling such spaces. …

2. embouing ger.

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Arch. The vaulting or arches. …

3. fīning ger.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Ending, death; (b) arch. the uppermost part of a pinnacle or spire; ?a finial. …

4. inbǒuing ger.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Arch. ?Trimming or hollow-molding timber for rafters, posts, and the like. …

5. mōlding(e ger.

Additional spellings: moldinge
12 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The act of kneading or baking bread; casting in a mold; (b) molding bord, a table or board on which bread is kneaded and shaped; molding trough, a vessel for mixing or kneading dough; (c) arch. mo……

6. nẹ̄dling ger.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Arch. The attachment of shoring to a structure by means of needle beams, needling. …

7. rīsing(e ger.

Additional spellings: risinge
89 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) The act of rising to one's feet, standing up; (b) the act of rising from sleep, getting out of bed; also, the act of awakening; rising shetes, ?bedsheets; (c) the act or fact of arising from the……

8. trussing(e ger.

Additional spellings: trussinge
36 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The act of packing, packing up; (b) trussing bed, a bed designed to be taken apart and packed for traveling, a portable bed; also, ?a trundle bed; trussing chalice (cuppe), ?a chalice (cup) for……

9. wīnding(e ger.(1)

Additional spellings: windinge
45 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A turn, curve, change in direction; also, the meandering course of a river; winding abouten, revolution (b) ?a cartwheel; winding bond, ?the rim of a cartwheel; (c) the knee as the point at which……

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