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1. alster adj.

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Belonging to a particular variety of fine cloth; also as noun. …

2. bolken v.

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(a) To belch; retch, vomit; vomit (sth.); (b) to cast forth (sth.), cast up; pour out (one's blood), bleed to death; of a garner: spill over, be full to bursting. …

3. bǒu(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: boue
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(a) The bow of a ship; (b) in name of ship. …

4. bǒunsen v.

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To beat (sb.), thump. …

5. bou-sprẹ̄t(e, bǒu(e)sprẹ̄t(e n.

Additional spellings: bouspret, bou-sprete, bousprete, bouesprete, bouspret, bouespret, bousprete
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Naut. Bowsprit. …

6. braulen v.(1)

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To raise a clamor, talk loudly, speak out; shout at (an animal). …

7. bulder n.

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A stone worn round, boulder, cobblestone; bulder ston. …

8. chiken n.

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A young chicken; chick, pullet; prob. also any chicken. …

9. choppen v.(1)

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(a) To strike (sb.) with a sharp weapon, slash; choppen of cut off with a blow; (b) to hack or strike (at, to sb.); cut (through sth.); (c) to hit (at sth.); choppen adoun, fig. strike (sb.) down. …

10. 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. …

11. cōl-fox n.

Additional spellings: colfox
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(a) A kind of fox with black feet, ears, and tail; (b) as surname. …

12. cọ̄te n.(4)

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(a) A diving water bird; esp., the common, or bald, coot (Fulica atra); as balled as a cote, as cursed as a cote; (b) the sea gull. …

13. dod(de n.

Additional spellings: dodde
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(a) A measure of grain [more than a quarter]; (b) dod-corn, a manorial rent; (c) as surname and in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.133]. …

14. drullen v.

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?To feel dizzy, stagger; ?to drool. …

15. dwẹ̄re n.

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(a) Doubt, perplexity, uncertainty; in (a) dwere, in doubt; without dwere, without question, certainly; (b) ?disagreement, dissension; ?distress, trouble; (c) amazement, awe; dread, fear. …

16. flappe n.

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A blow; a stroke (with a weapon or scourge); a buffet or slap (with the hand or fist). …

17. flappen v.

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(a) To beat or strike (something); to slap at (flies); flappen on, to beat (someone), to thresh (grain); flappen in sonder, to slash in two; flappen at, to strike at; (b) flappen with hond, to clap……

18. flindre n.

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A moth. …

19. fokesail n.

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A sail attached to the foremast, a (triangular) foresail. …

20. fǒmelen v.

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To make a groping movement (with the fingers), to grope. …

21. forhousen v.

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To shift (sth. from one storage location to another), relocate. …

22. frise n.(2)

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(a) A kind of coarse woolen cloth with a thick nap on one side, frieze; (b) frise ware. …

23. grippel n.

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A small ditch or drain. …

24. gulpen v.

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To gulp down (drink). …

25. hei interj.

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(a) Implying challenge, rebuttal, anger, derision; (b) indicating sorrow or concern; hei weilawei; (c) an exclamation of encouragement to dogs, esp. in hunting; (d) as a burden in songs and carols……

26. hummen v.

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(a) To hum, buzz, murmur; (b) to make inarticulate sounds; (c) to make murmuring sounds to cover up embarrassment. …

27. hurkelen v.

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(a) To nestle, crouch; (b) hurkelen doun with hed, to bend the head down, cower; (c) to rest, lie; (d) hurkelen up, ?to stand up; (e) in surnames [see Smith PNElem. 1.260-1]. …

28. hurlen v.

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(a) To rush violently or quickly; charge (at sb.); of sound: rush (to the ears); also fig.; hurlen in, come charging in; hurlen hider and thider, hurlen her and ther, stumble or stagger this way and……

29. kebbe n.

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(a) An old useless cow or sheep; (b) as surname. …

30. kemp(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: kempe
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A container for bulk sale of fish, apparently equal to a barrel; a cask, barrel. …

31. knak(ke n.

Additional spellings: knakke
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(a) An equivocation; deception; stratagem, trick; (b) a joke; (c) knakkes and moues, jeers and grimaces; a knak and a moue, etc. …

32. knarre n.

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(a) A crag, twisted rock; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.102]. …

33. knobel n.

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(a) A small knot or knob on a root; (b) a swelling, a hump; (c) a thickening of the skin, a callus. …

34. lē̆ng(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: lenge
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The European ling Molva molva; also, any fish of the genus Molva; gret leng, a full-grown ling; leng fish, a ling; whit leng, ?white ling [?error for whiting]; leng drie, dried lings. …

35. lǒuen n.

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A rascal, rogue. …

36. Lūkes n. & adj.

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(a) As noun: a material, probably velvet, made in Liège; (b) as adj.: made in Liège, from Liège; Lukes rai, ?striped cloth made in Liège. …

37. lumpe n.

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(a) A mass of material, usually of no special shape; a piece, lump; lumpe ston, ?an unfinished stone; lumpe of a wal, ?a buttress; in (on) a lumpe, in one piece, in a heap; fallen as it were a lumpe……

38. mafflen v.

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To talk nonsense, babble. …

39. merlin n.

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Naut. Small line of two strands, used for seizings; marline. …

40. milkere n.(2)

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?A milter, a male fish in spawning time. …

41. misellen v.

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To drizzle. …

42. mop(pe n.

Additional spellings: moppe
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(a) A fool, simpleton; a worthless person; (b) as adj.: foolish; (c) ?a derisive gesture; (d) a little child, baby; also, a doll; (e) as surname. …

43. pet(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: pete
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?A cornel cherry; pet tre, cornel cherry tree. …

44. pīk-wrōng n.

Additional spellings: pikwrong
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A V-shaped floor-timber in the forepeak and afterpeak of a ship. …

45. pǒupen v.

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To make a gulping sound while drinking; also, blow a horn; poupen in. …

46. prīal n.

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?A kind of horizontal brail or an additional central parrel holding the belly of the sail to the mast; prial rop = prial [see Sandahl ME Sea Terms 3 70-78]. …

47. puttok n.

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Naut.?Some kind of cheek or cleat on a mast; puttok ring, ?a futtock ring. …

48. saggen v.

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(a) To sink, be mired; (b) to sag, hang down unevenly; (c) ?to weaken; ?sink down. …

49. shōre adj.

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Steep, sheer. …

50. shǒvelen v.(2)

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To shuffle; shovelen (forth) with fete. …

51. sloteren v.

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To make (sth.) dirty, bemire; also fig. …

52. sobben v.

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(a) To sob as a result of sorrow or gladness; weep in contrition or as a result of spiritual fervor; sobben and sighen (wepen), sighen (wepen) and (or) sobben, etc.; (b) to weep (to have sth.); sobben……

53. spurcate n.

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Naut. A kind of timber in a ship, prob. used to strengthen the frame; spurcate nail, a nail used to fasten such a timber. …

54. stul(le n.

Additional spellings: stulle
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(a) A large piece or chunk of food; (b) in surnames. …

55. swirlen v.

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To eddy, swirl. …

56. tā̆lmen v.

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(a) Of a person: to be overcome, faint; of the heart: weaken, become exhausted; (b) of the tongue: to falter when singing; (c) ?to exhaust (sb.), weary; ?refl. to grow tired. …

57. tik n.

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A light touch, tap; also, a blow in combat. …

58. tiken v.

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To touch or pat a person as part of a game, dally frivolously. …

59. tinklen v.

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(a) To have a sensation of slight stings or pricks; of the ears: have a sensation of ringing; (b) of a cymbal: to tinkle, ring lightly; tinklen up, of a drum: resound. …

60. toi(e n.

Additional spellings: toie
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A trifle, trifling thing; a sportive act; a jest. …

61. tọ̄̆spateren v.

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To smash (sth.) to pieces, scatter in fragments. …

62. trink n.

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A type of long fishing net, usually fixed, used in the Thames and its tributaries. …

63. vēren v.(1)

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Naut. To let out or slacken (a rope). …

64. weghin n.

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In comb.: fot weghin, ?floorboards, foot-waling [cp. fot-weir, s.v. weir n.]. …

65. weir n.

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Naut. A wooden member forming part of a ship, prob. a stringer or sleeper; fot weir, a plank or batten laid in a fore-and-aft direction to form foot-waling or floorboards;—also coll. …

66. wẹ̄veling n.

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Naut. A piece of caulking material placed between the lapstrakes while the ship is under construction;—also coll. …

67. wriggen v.

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To wag (one’s tail);—used fig.; wriggen with the tail, of a bird: twist or flap its tail. …

68. wrikken v.

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To move to and fro, flit back and forth; also in fig. context. …

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