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1. blī-gẹ̄ter n.

Additional spellings: bligeter
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A lead founder. …

2. knod n.

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An excrescence or lump in the flesh. …

3. ripel-stok n.

Additional spellings: ripelstok
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An implement for cleaning seeds from flax. …

4. scot-nail n.

Additional spellings: scotnail
14 quotations in 1 sense
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A kind of nail; -- also coll. …

5. scot-sēm(e n.

Additional spellings: scotsem, scot-seme, scotseme
6 quotations in 1 sense
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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. …

6. shaltrẹ̄ n.

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Naut. Some kind of pole or spar. …

7. shelt-bēm n.

Additional spellings: sheltbem
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Naut. Some sort of beam, evidently slabbed; shelt-bem nail. …

8. smeltes n.

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?A smeltery; ?smelting operations. …

9. smert(e n.

Additional spellings: smerte
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(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)……

10. snegge n.

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

11. snof(fe n.

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

12. stikeling(e n.

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

13. stilt(e n.

Additional spellings: stilte
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(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. …

14. stǒupe n.(1)

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(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. …

15. vīring-rōp n.

Additional spellings: viringrop
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Naut. Some kind of rope used aboard a sailing vessel, ?a warp rope. …

16. wẹ̄r(e n.(5)

Additional spellings: were
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(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……

17. wẹ̄veling n.

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

18. whip(pe n.

Additional spellings: whippe
42 quotations in 3 senses
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(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……

19. wīnd(e n.

Additional spellings: winde
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(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……

20. wisp(e n.

Additional spellings: wispe
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(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……

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