(a) The neck; hongen bi the hals, to hang (sb.) with a rope around the neck; fro hals to croupoun, from neck to rump; hals gund [OE heals-gund], a neck tumor; also in asseveration: bi mi hals; (b) the……
(a) A garment, an article of clothing; a priestly vestment; also, an outfit of clothing or armor, a set of clothes; also, (one's) clothing, attire; also fig.; (b) coll. clothing, clothes……
Naut. A rope used to control and brace the yard; -- also coll.; steting rop; corde steting; steting puli, a pulley for hauling a steting; steting triplex, a steting made of three strands.
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(a) A post, stud; also, naut. some kind of upright prop supporting the deck beam of a ship; -- also coll.; (b) a loom or the framework of a loom; (c) ?a band or thread woven in a fabric marking the……
(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……
(a) A female sibling, a sister or half-sister; suster quene, a sister who is a queen; seinte petres suster, ?a personification of the White Paternoster; trusten to suster no brother, to trust no one……
(a) A root of a medicinal plant or herb
(b) in combs.: helme wale [cp. OI hjālm-völr], naut. the tiller of a side rudder; liche wale [see liche-wal n.]; litel wale, the little wale or gromwell……
(a) The threads, taken collectively, among which the weft of cloth is woven, the warp; also, the foundation threads of a spider’s web; warp threde, yarn for the warp
(b) the woof or weft [glossing L ……
(a) Water as a naturally occurring substance; water as a medium for preparing recipes, soaking, etc.; also, a fluid with properties similar to those of water
(b) a naturally occurring body of water,……
