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1. avail(e n.

Additional spellings: availe
68 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Benefit, advantage, profit; ben avail, to be useful or effective; ben litel avail, to be of little value; (b) of persons: worthiness. …

2. scarmuch(e n.

Additional spellings: scarmuche
18 quotations in 1 sense
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Mil. An engagement between small bodies of soldiers, a skirmish; a battle; an encounter between besieging and besieged forces; also, the manner of fighting characteristic of a skirmish. …

3. tup(pe n.

Additional spellings: tuppe
23 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A male sheep, ram; also, a ram's skin [quot. c1450]; tup hed; tup horn; (b) mil. a battering ram; (c) in surnames and place name. …

4. vīne-yē̆rd n.

Additional spellings: vineyerd
48 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A vineyard; also, a pictorial representation of a vineyard [quot. a1398]; vine-yerd of plesire, ?a vineyard designed for recreational or aesthetic purposes; vine-yerd silver, a customary rent paid……

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