(a) An uncastrated male swine (either wild or domesticated); (b) bores brain, brain of a boar used medicinally; bor(es grece, fat of a boar; bores herte, a bold or fierce heart; bor(es tusk, one of……

Mil. A device with sharp iron spikes set on the ground to cripple the feet of an advancing enemy; similar device used against trespassers, etc.; fig. a spiritual trap or pitfall. …

The cutting edge of a tool or instrument. …

(a) An edible bivalve mollusc, mussel; muscle bed, portion of sea bottom on which mussels grow; muscle man, ?one who gathers or sells mussels; (b) mil. muscle, muscle shelle, a kind of siege engine……

(a) An agricultural implement used for mowing or pruning, a scythe; also fig.; (b) the curved blade of a scythe; (c) sithe ale, a drinking celebration held for mowers as compensation for mowing some……

(a) A thrusting weapon, spear; a horseman's spear, lance; a javelin, dart; also fig.; (b) spere and (or) sheld, knif (sword) or spere, sheld (sword) and spere, etc.; -- often used coll.; (c) spere of……

(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. …

(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……

(a) An instrument or a tool, usu. of metal or wood, thick at one end and tapering to a narrow edge at the other, used to force apart two surfaces, split rock or wood, tighten a structure, etc., a……

(a) An edible marine gastropod of the family Buccinidae, a whelk; also, ?a periwinkle or other marine snail; ?a cockle, mussel, or other shellfish; welk bot, a boat used in fishing for whelks or……

(a) A male sheep, ram; a castrated ram; ?also, an adult sheep; also, the flesh of a sheep or ram, mutton (b) a ram used as a sacrifice in religious ritual; (c) the ram which bore the Golden Fleece;……

(a) The common European wolf (Canis lupus); also, the wolf as an animal of venery [quots. c1425 & c1475]; a route of wolfes, a wolf pack (b) in cpds. and combs.: wolf bicche, bicche of the wolf, she……