Sun-dried or salt codfish. …

(a) A beggar, mendicant; (b) beggeres route, the assembled beggars; beggeres rowe, place assigned to beggars; bold begger, impudent beggar; (c) a suppliant. …

(a) A large piece of wood, a block; also fig. or (as a type of something inert) in quasi-proverbial comparisons; blok bord, rough, unpolished board; also, specifically: (b) the executioner's block……

(a) A buoy; (b) boi rop, the rope for fastening a buoy to its anchor. …

(a) A bud (of a flower or spray); also, a fresh shoot or spray, the first stage in the development of fruit (as of grapes); (b) a seed pod. …

A member of the governing body of a Dutch or North German town, a burgess. …

(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 crossbow. …

(a) A watery or marshy place, a swamp; a pool or puddle; (b) in place names and surnames. …

(a) The transporting of goods or passengers (usually by water); a charge for transportation; passage money; (b) facilities for transportation. …

Straw, thatching. …

(a) Gullet of an animal; (b) a throatful, speech, talk. …

(a) A stream of water; watercourse, brook; a current or swell of the ocean; also, a stream of blood; (b) a channel, ditch, drain; a sluice; (c) got nail, some kind of nail; (d) in place names [see……

(a) A graft, a cutting for grafting; also fig.; (b) a twig, branch, shoot; also fig. …

(a) A herring Clupea harengus; (b) red hering, smoked herring; whit hering, herring salted but not smoked; (c) hering barel, a cask for herring; hering breder (carter), one who roasts (hauls) herring……

(a) An outer garment, a cloak with a hood; (b) ?an ornamental covering for a shield; (c) ?caparison of a horse [?error for hak n. (2)]. …

A mattock, pickax; also fig. …

A name for the wolf in beast fables. …

One of the ends of a horse-shoe, turned down to prevent slipping; a calk. …

(a) A lascivious man, a lecher; (b) as name of the hare:?lecher; ?glutton. …

Either of two Old World mandrakes (Mandragora vernalis or M. officinarum); also, a part of these plants used in medicine; mandrag lef. …

(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) A coin [orig. Flemish] of very small denomination, variously valued at a farthing or half a farthing; a small sum; (b) a jot, a whit; half a mite; not a mite, not a bit, not at all; dere inough……

A sore spot on the heel, a chilblain; ?also, gout. …

(a) A spike; a pointed tip or spike on a staff, pole, weapon, instrument of torture, etc.; a spike affixed to a door or wall; also, a spike used to tear or wound someone; also fig.; → of iren, an iron……

(a) A pill containing a medicament; pille cochie (rasis, a pill containing a purgative; pille fetid, ?a foul-smelling pill; (b) a pellet found in a pigeon's gizzard. …

(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is……

A mechanical device to raise and expel bilge water from a ship, a pump; pumpe yerde, ?a handle for a pump. …

Railing or grating for a barge. …

(a) A rat; rat trappe; rattes bait; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.79]. …

A journey; also, a military expedition. …

A standard commercial measure for a large quantity of paper, ?= twenty quires. …

(a) A sweet red wine of Mediterranean origin, rumney; romenei (of) modoun, rumney from Modon in the Peloponnesus; (b) a rumney cask. …

(a) Froth, foam; pl. frothy bubbles; (b) the impure foam that rises to the surface when a liquid boils or is heated; (c) the impure scum that rises to the surface in purifying silver. …

(a) An implement for drawing or taking up liquids, prob. usu. provided with a handle; a scoop; also fig.; (b) a scoop for use on a boat, usu. for bailing water; (c) a scoop used in the brewing……

(a) In general, the protective calcareous or chitinous outer covering of an invertebrate, a shell; (b) the shell of a mollusk, crustacean, or an echinoderm; also fig.; also in proverb; (c) shel fish [……

(a) A flat-bottomed boat, barge; (b) shout man, the master of a shoute; also, a sailor on a shoute; also as surname. …

A name for the wolf in beast fables. …

(a) A loaf or bun made of fine flour; (b) in surname. …

A shoot, sprout. …

(a) The captain or master of a ship; (b) as surname [some quots. may belong to skipper(e n.(2)(c)]. …

(a) A soldier armed with a sling; honde slinger; staf slinger [see staf n.1f.(a)]; (b) as surname. …

A kind of sweetmeat, perh. candied fruit or sugar plums. …

(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) A piece of timber used in building; a rafter, beam; a board; -- also coll.; firre sparre; hilinge of sparres, a roof; joininge of sparres, a roof or building; maister sparre, a main beam or……

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

(a) A cavern in a rock, cave; a den; spelunk of thefes, fig. a den of thieves; (b) a burial cave, tomb; double spelunk, a two-chambered tomb, place of double burial. …

(a) A fish of the family Clupeidae, esp. the sprat Clupea sprattus; ?also, a shoal of sprats [quot. ?a1500, 1st]; also, the pilchard Sardinia pilchardus; also, any small fish of the genus Merlangus……

(a) One who spies on the activities of another; one sent out to make secret observations in a foreign land, a scout or spy; also, a forerunner or messenger [quot. 1449]; (b) mil. one sent into enemy……

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

Law Destruction or spoliation of an inheritance. …

(a) A clasp or similar fastener; (b) a nail of some kind;— ?also coll. [quot. c1390], perh. with play on sense (a); tak nail. …

(a) A piece of decorative fabric bearing a painted, embroidered, or woven pattern or figures and used variously as a carpet, coverlet, bed or wall hanging, or the like, a tapestry; also fig.; also in……

(a) A brick; a masonry tile;—also coll.; brenned tile; clei tile; (b) in related cpds., combs., & phrases: tile of flaundres, flaundres (flaundrish) tile, bricks or tile made in Flanders; tile ston……

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

(a) The voice of a human being, centaur, etc.; a voice; also, vocal sound; a vocal sound or a sound made in speaking; in (with) o voice, in unison; in voice, aloud; soun (of) voice (b) the voice of……

= gaumbisoun n. …

(a) A flowering plant variously to be identified with weld (Reseda luteola) or woad (Isatis tinctoria) [the latter esp. when glossing L sandix or gaisdo];—sometimes used medicinally or to make dye……

(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……

(a) Large-scale military conflict between countries, peoples, rulers, etc. or between factions or forces within a single country, war, warfare;—also pl.; wer faringe, q.v.; open (pleine) wer, open……

(a) An auger used in woodworking, a gimlet, wimble; also person.; axel-man wimble, a wheelwright’s wimble; frensh wimble, ?a specially adapted variety of wimble associated with French designs or……