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81. teler n.(1)

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(a) The stock of a crossbow; (b) the stock of a hand-held firearm; (c) a lever to steer a boat, tiller.

82. tenement n.

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(a) The holding of property, tenure, possession; fre tenement, freehold tenure; (b) property held in tenure, rented property; a holding; tenement man, a man of property; tenement place, a rented…

83. tentǒur n.(2)

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A wooden frame used to stretch cloth, a tenter; also, a place where cloth is stretched [quot. a1500].

84. thū̆ribul n.

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A censer, thurible.

85. timber n.(2)

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A specific quantity of furs, usu. a bundle of forty skins.

86. tiriacle n.

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An antidote, esp. a drug containing snake flesh used as an antidote against poisonous snake bites.

87. tonnel n.

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(a) A barrel for liquids or solids, cask, tun; tonnel hop; tonnel tre, ?a barrel stave; (b) a net for catching partridges or other birds; (c) ?a chimney shaft; (d) a strainer or colander.

88. torel n.

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A malt-kiln.

89. tǒurel n.

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(a) A turret; also in fig. context; (b) as surname.

90. tǒurnement n.

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(a) An exercise in the medieval martial arts, engaged in by knights, usu. mounted, and used to demonstrate prowess or hone skills; (b) a test or demonstration of physical skill;—used of the Olympic…

91. tramaile n.

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A type of fishing net.

92. trameis n.

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The spring sowing or plowing; also, spring-sown grain.

93. trā̆ve n.

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(a) A beam; trave nail; trave tre; (b) an enclosure or a frame for restraining horses while they are being shod; (c) in surnames.

94. trentā̆l n.

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(a) A set or course of thirty masses for the dead, sung on the same day or spread over several days, a trental; also, a poem describing a particular trental [quot. a1500 Trental]; also, a payment for…

95. trē̆peǧet n.

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(a) A siege weapon designed to cast stones, darts, etc., with a counterweighted or man-powered throwing arm; ?also, a version of such a weapon adapted for use on a ship; trepeget line (rop); (b) a…

96. trestel n.

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(a) A support, usu. two-legged and employed in pairs, for boards or planks serving as a tabletop, a base, trestle;—also coll.; paire (of) trestel(es; (b) a bracing or supporting structure consisting…

97. triple n.

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(a) A triple amount or quantity; (b) = triplacioun n.

98. trǒut n.

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(a) Any of several food or game fish of the genus Salmo, prob. including the common trout (S. fario) and salmon trout (S. salar) and perh. also the sea trout (S. trutta);—freq. as a commodity; (b) a…

99. trusse n.

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(a) A wrapped bundle containing clothing, laundry, etc., a parcel, traveler's pack; also, ?a bolt of cloth, cloth wound and fastened together in a roll [quots. c1436]; in trusse, ?on the bolt; (b) a…

100. tumbrel n.(1)

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(a) An instrument of punishment, perh. a pillory or cucking stool; ?also, the right to erect and employ such an instrument [quot. 1394]; (b) a wheeled cart designed to tip backward to empty its load…