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1. bakke n.

18 quotations in 2 senses
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A bat; bakke wing. …

2. balteren v.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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To move about clumsily; totter, hobble, tumble about. …

3. benger(e n.

Additional spellings: bengere
2 quotations in 1 sense
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A grain bin; the hopper of a mill. …

4. benk n.

20 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A bench, a seat; esp., a long, backless seat; (b) a royal seat, the throne of a ruler; setten on benk, to put (sb.) on a throne, do honor to (sb.); (c) benk ende, the end of the bench. …

5. bī n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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A dwelling; farm, village, town; bi-milne, town mill. [Common in place names and field names of the East Midland and the North (the Danelaw). See A. H. Smith PNElem. 1.66, & the thorp, by, tun map in……

6. bing n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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A coffer; a bin. …

7. bọ̄th n.

37 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A stall at a market or fair, a merchant's shop; ?also, house of prostitution [L meritorium]; (b) a temporary dwelling, arbor of branches, tent, hut; also a poor dwelling, a hovel; (c) in personal……

8. bou(e-līne n.

Additional spellings: bouline, boue-line, boueline
10 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. Bowline. …

9. bou-sprẹ̄t(e, bǒu(e)sprẹ̄t(e n.

Additional spellings: bouspret, bou-sprete, bousprete, bouesprete, bouspret, bouespret, bousprete
15 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. Bowsprit. …

10. brāke(n n.

Additional spellings: braken
23 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Any one of a variety of ferns [see quot. ?a1450 Agnus Castus]; bracken; (b) brake bush, a fern thicket; (c) brake of fern, fern-brake, a thicket of fern; (d) in place names [see A. H. Smith PNElem……

11. brōked adj.

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Variegated, spotted. …

12. brusket n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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The brisket of an animal. …

13. buk-hīde n.

Additional spellings: bukhide
2 quotations in 1 sense
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A game: blindman's buff, ?hide-and-seek; pleien buk-hide. …

14. burre n.(1)

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(a) The common burdock Arctium lappa; ?also, some similar plant; (b) ?some member of the genus Rumex; Rumex crispus, Rumex obtusifolius; (c) cleavers Galium aparine; (d) Christ's thorn Paliurus……

15. cakelen v.

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(a) Of a fowl: to cackle, cluck, quack; of other birds: chatter, etc.; cakelen it out, make it known by cackling; (b) to talk volubly or foolishly, chatter, gossip; tell (sth.) in idle chatter or……

16. chough(e n.

Additional spellings: choughe
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One of several birds of the crow family: chough, jackdaw, jay; Cornish chough; co-brid. …

17. clagged adj.

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?Besmeared, bedaubed, covered. …

18. claggen v.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) to clump or grow viscous; (b) ppl. clagged, ?besmeared, bedaubed, covered. …

19. clift n.

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(a) A crack, fissure, rift, notch, cleft, slash; helle clift, the chasm of hell; (b) a break in the skin, crack, fissure; a cut, gash; (c) a tear in a muscle, rupture; (d) a surgical cutting or……

20. clint n.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A ledge of rock; a cliff, steep bank; (b) in place names. …

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