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1. ambre n.

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A bucket; also, a liquid measure.

2. ā̆ðeling n.

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(a) A nobleman or lord; knight, warrior; (b) specif., a royal prince, an heir apparent.

3. āver n.(1)

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A draft horse; ?also, any beast of burden or draft animal.

4. berbẹ̄ne n.

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Vervain Verbena officinalis; berbene lef.

5. ?bin-heie n.

Additional spellings: binheie
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An enclosure, pen.

6. cherset n.

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A customary rent paid in grain or chickens for the support of the (parish) church, usually at Martinmas (Nov.11). [See Neilson Cust.Rents in OSSLH 2 193-6.]

7. Dene-laue n.

Additional spellings: Denelaue
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The law code imposed upon the northern and eastern counties of England by the Danes or Northmen, or the 15 counties so governed; the Danelaw.

8. ferme n.(1)

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A feast, banquet; anes nihtes ferme, provisions for one day (for the king and his retinue).

9. flẹ̄te n.

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(a) A group of ships; esp. a fleet of warships, a navy; ?a naval expedition; (b) a troop of armed men, an army; (c) ?a set (of fishing nets).

10. frank-pleǧǧe n.

Additional spellings: frankplegge
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One of the mutually responsible members of a tithing, etc.

11. frith-sōken, -sōkne n.

Additional spellings: frithsoken, frith-sokne, frithsokne
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The privilege of maintaining law and order on a feudal estate; jurisdiction of frankpledge; franchise to hold view of frankpledge with all appurtenant rights.

12. heriet n.

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(a) A payment made, by the heir(s to the lord of the manor, upon the death of a tenant; (b) the right to collect this payment.

13. last n.(2)

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(a) The load of a ship, cargo; (b) a measure for hides, 200 hides; (c) a measure for wool; prob. 20 sacks; (d) a measure for herrings and other fish, bacon, beer, wine, small cut or shaped stones…

14. lest n.

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A district within a county; lest marche, a district on a border with another country.

15. ǒutlau(e n.

Additional spellings: outlaue
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(a) One decreed an outlaw; a fugitive from justice; an exile, banished person [occasionally indistinguishable from sense (b)]; (b) a miscreant, villain; pirate, robber; fig. extortioner; (c) as…

16. ǒutlauen v.

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(a) To pronounce (sb.) an outlaw; banish (sb.), exile; (b) to ostracize (sb.); exclude (sb. from an assembly); also fig. banish (sb. from heaven or paradise); (c) to banish (charity, reason, Holy…

17. ǒutlauerī(e n.

Additional spellings: outlauerie
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(a) A judgment or declaration of outlawry against somebody; an exiling, a banishment; at the outlaueri, about to be declared an outlaw; with outlaueri, under sentence of banishment; (b) the condition…

18. pit n.

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(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is…

19. pōke n.

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(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…

20. potter(e n.

Additional spellings: pottere
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(a) A maker of various kinds of vessels, esp. earthenware vessels; a potter; also fig.; erthe potter, a maker of earthenware vessels; (b) a maker of metal pots, vessels, or other objects of metal; (c)…