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1. dai-werk, -work, daies werk n. & phr.
Additional spellings:
daiwerk, dai-work, daiwork, daies werk
11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A normal day's work; a day's customary service; also, a day's fighting; (b) as a land measure: a plot of land that can be plowed by one team in one day [appar. from 3 to 5 poles].
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3. gọ̄der hēle, gọ̄der-hēle phr. & n.
Additional spellings:
goder-hele, goderhele
15 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Good fortune; advantageously, fortunately; as interj.: Good luck!; (b) to goder hele, fortunately; (c) with dative: fortunately for (sb.); to goder hele, to goder hele to, fortunately for (sb.)……
4. hā̆lī̆-dai, hālī dai n. & phr.
Additional spellings:
halidai, hali dai
65 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A Christian festival, a day consecrated to religious observances, a day of rest; any holy day, including Sunday; (b) any Hebrew holy day, including Saturday; (c) fig. a day sacred to Cupid, a……
5. Merchene laue n. & phr.
Additional spellings:
Merchenelaue
11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An Old English code of laws, Mercian Law; (b) the area governed under this code in late OE and early ME times.
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6. wīlde dẹ̄r phr. & n.
24 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An undomesticated beast in contrast to a domesticated counterpart, a woodland creature, wild animal; also, a dumb beast, brute [1st quot.]; wilde der kin, any creature representing the general……
7. wrōther hēle phr. & n.
37 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Destruction, ruin; disaster, harm;—sometimes used as an exclamation; also, in tmesis: to wrother here hele, to their disadvantage
(b) in phrase: to wrother hele, preceded by dat. pers. pron.: to……