Eel spear, fish spear. …

(a) An ornate covered bowl for mixing wine; (b) a drinking vessel; goblet, beaker; biker cuppe; biker maker. …

A lead founder. …

A flaw of some kind; ?a wrinkle. …

(a) A woods, grove; thicket, underbrush; bank and bush, hill and (wooded) dale; under the bush, in (the shelter of) the woods; (b) rank growth. …

A ball of thread. …

The neck of an animal. …

A worthless person, a poor fellow. …

(a) Refuse of grain, chaff, husks; ?also, bran; fig. the worthless part of something; (b) waste parts of grapes or olives after removal of juice or oil; also fig.; (c) solid parts of leaves or herbs……

A kind of fishing net. …

(a) A petty merchant, a peddler; -- often used contemptuously; (b) in names. …

Naut. A hook let into the stem or stern post of a ship; ?error for pik-hok, cp. kippe-wrong. …

A rope or cord forming part of the harness of a cart horse; ?a kind of trace. …

An excrescence or lump in the flesh. …

(a) Spot, mark; blemish; (b) pl. the strands or cords of a net; also, the openings between the strands or cords of a net; (c) gise of maskel, ?lozenge shaped. …

A pustule, pimple, boil. …

Misfortune [cp. quēd(e adj. (d)]. …

In the names of plants: (a) simply: any of several unrelated plants, including especially ground pine Ajuga chamaepitys, wall or common germander Teucrium chamaedrys, yellow rattle Rhinanthus……

A riding path, bridle path. …

(a) A small metal ring; (b) in place name. …

An implement for cleaning seeds from flax. …

A kind of nail; -- also coll. …

Coll. Nails of some kind, perh. clinch nails or small nails used for fastening laths; scot-sem nail, clavus de scot-sem, a nail of this kind. …

A rushing noise, roar. …

(a) The county of Zealand in the Netherlands; (b) Seland cloth, a kind of cloth made in Zealand; (c) as title of a herald. …

Naut. Some kind of pole or spar. …

Naut. Some sort of beam, evidently slabbed; shelt-bem nail. …

?A splash; ?a leap. …

The European spoonbill Platalea leucorodia; also, the spoonbill used for food. …

A name for the wolf in beast fables. …

A shoot, sprout. …

(a) Slime, mud; dirty dregs; (b) intestines, entrails. …

An immoral woman, a slut; also, a knave, rascal. …

?A smeltery; ?smelting operations. …

(a) Physical pain; also, harm [quot. a1420]; also, a burn [quot. 1440]; don smert, to cause (an animal) pain, harm; (b) grief, sorrow, annoyance; also fig. of Jesus; also, contrition, remorse; (c)……

(a) A snail; (b) some kind of fish; ?an eel. …

(a) The burnt end of a candlewick; candel snof; (b) ?a candle snuffer; (c) glossing L muco. …

(a) A wage, stipend; also, pay, wages; (b) for soud, for pay; men of soud, mercenaries; quartere soud, wages or a stipend paid four times a year; with his ouen soudes, liable for his own wages, at his……

A splinter, chip. …

(a) An opening in a garment; a hole or tatter [quot. c1450, 1st]; ?a pocket [quot. a1500(a1415)]; also [quot. c1440(?a1400)], ?a breeches opening; ?a vent in body armor; speier belt (?bilet), ?a belt……

Some kind of metal used to make or plate armored headgear: ?an alloy of zinc. …

?A canopy. …

A name given to a large eel, with ref. to the method for cooking it. …

A large iron nail; -- also coll.; ?also, the act of fastening with a spike [quot. 1431-2]; spiking nail; cok spiking, ?a nail resembling a cockspur; double (gret, gros, middel) spiking. …

(a) A fragment of wood; a splinter; (b) spil bon, the thighbone, femur; also, a bone of the arm, prob. the radius. …

(a) One of the metal plates making up or reinforcing armor; (b) a surgical splint; (c) in cpds.: splet bon, the shoulder bone, scapula [cp. spel(e n. (c) & spil(e n.(1) (b)]; splet hat, ?a hat made of……

(a) A woven basket; ?also, a bucket; (b) a hollow stem or cane. …

A barrel, tub, cask, or similar container; stand worter, a cooking vessel of some kind; ale stand, a vessel for ale. …

Any of several spinous saltwater fishes, often of the family Gasterosteidae, a stickleback; also, a thornback Raia clavata [quot. 1412-13]; ban stikeling. …

(a) The handle of a plow; (b) a wooden crutch; an artificial leg, peg leg; also, a stilt; stilt bond, a strap for attaching a stilt or a peg leg; (c) ?one of the uprights of a ladder; (d) in surname. …

(a) A jug, often made of leather; also, a measure for liquids, varying from one pint to several gallons; (b) a vessel or container for holy water; holi water stoupe. …

(a) The extreme end of something, usu. rounded or pointed; also, a metal or other attachment to the end of something; (b) in cpd.: tip to, the end of the toe;—used in pl.; also, the end of a bird's……

Naut. Some kind of rope used aboard a sailing vessel, ?a warp rope. …

(a) The theological error or sin of insufficient faith in God’s mercy, despair that denies the promise of salvation and divine forgiveness; despair of salvation, grace, etc.; wanhope of goddes merci……

A rope associated with a fishing net, perh. by which the net is suspended or drawn. …

(a) A wave of water, esp. in the sea; ?also, a current; gon in wawes, to become tempestuous (b) pl. the sea, seen as a collection of individual waves; (c) used metonymically: the sea; water; wau of……

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

(a) A feeling or personal condition of doubt or uncertainty; also, hesitancy, indecision; double wer, a state of doubt or indecision between two alternatives; in (a) wer, in a state of doubt or……

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

(a) A scourge, lash, whip; also fig.; whip of (knotted with) led, a whip furnished with leaden balls or pieces; whippes lash, a flexible switch used as a whip (b) an instrument for driving or……

(a) A pile-driving machine [cp. ram n. 3.(a)]; (b) in personal names and surnames. …

Arch. A piece of timber or stone prob. covering the joint between the gable edge and the roof and serving as protection from the wind, a bargeboard. …

(a) An apparatus for hoisting or hauling, a winch, windlass [cp. windas n.]; naut. middel wind, ?a central garnet used in brailing up the sail (b) a wooden reel from which a hank or thread of yarn……

(a) A small gathering or bundle of cut grass, straw, or grain stalks; wisp of hei (strau) (b) a bundle of straw, hay, or similar material twisted together for use as a torch; wisp of fir; (c) a……

Any of several varieties of bird, esp. the green woodpecker (Picus viridis) and the rarer golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus), with which, in its female and immature forms, the former may readily be……

A wrecked ship, shipwreck; ship wrak; toward a wrak, on the verge of being wrecked; gon (ben igone) to wrak, of a ship: to suffer destruction on the water, be wrecked; also in fig. context. …

A measure of volume equivalent to that contained in a person’s hands cupped together. …