(a) A spike; a pointed tip or spike on a staff, pole, weapon, instrument of torture, etc.; a spike affixed to a door or wall; also, a spike used to tear or wound someone; also fig.; → of iren, an iron……
(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) A vessel, pot, container; (b) an earthenware vessel; pottery; also fig.; erthen pot, pot of erthe; (c) a metal pot; bras (brasen, gilt, gold, peutre) pot, etc.; pot of bras (gold, silver, peutre)……
(a) Of persons: rich, wealthy, prosperous; also, having sufficient wealth; for richere for poverer, whether richer or poorer; on riche reue, in a wealthy condition, among wealthy people; (b) riche of……
To sift (grain); also, fig. test (sb.); -- also without obj.; spread (ashes) by means of sifting; -- used without obj.; ridelen oute of, separate (sb.) from (God's chosen).
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(a) To rob, plunder, steal; (b) to plunder (lands, a house), ransack, pillage; rifle (bags); destroy (a city); (c) to rob (sb.); despoil (the dead); riflen of, rob (sb.) of (sth.); riflen route, fig.……
The personal name Robert: (a) as a designation for a robber, vagabond, or lowly person; robertes men (knaves), robbers, marauders; Robert renne-aboute, wastrel, good-for-nothing; (b) as a designation……
(a) A hand-held weapon for throwing stones or similar missiles, a sling; also fig.; honde sling; sling slaughte, game killed with a sling; sling ston, a stone used as a missile to be thrown from a……
(a) To throw (sb. or sth., esp. into a place or in a specified direction), hurl, fling; also, fell (an adversary) in battle; also, raze (a city); slingen abouten, swing (sb.) around; slingen doun……
(a) The sturgeon (Acipenser sturio); -- also coll.; ?also, another fish or aquatic animal [quot. ?c1475]; (b) cook. a sturgeon used as food; maken a sturgeoun, to prepare a sturgeon for the table; (c)……
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……
