(a) A woven basket; ?also, a bucket; (b) a hollow stem or cane. …

(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……

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 clasp or similar fastener; (b) a nail of some kind;— ?also coll. [quot. c1390], perh. with play on sense (a); tak nail. …

(a) A large wooden vessel formed of staves and hoops, a tub; dough (knedinge) tub, a tub used for kneading, esp. a tub used in breadmaking; flesh tub, ?a tub for the preparation and storage of salted……

That part of a hinge which consists of a plate or band affixed to a door, window, rudder, etc. and of an eye that turns on a pin or hook attached to a doorpost, etc.; ?also, a complete hinge [cp. heng……

A unit of weight, variable but usu. between 160 and 190 lbs., used esp. for lead and glass. …

(a) Large-scale military conflict between countries, peoples, rulers, etc. or between factions or forces within a single country, war, warfare;—also pl.; wer faringe, q.v.; open (pleine) wer, open……

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. …

A wrecked ship, shipwreck; ship wrak; toward a wrak, on the verge of being wrecked; gon (ben igone) to wrak, of a ship: to suffer destruction on the water, be wrecked; also in fig. context. …