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1. aberdē̆n(e n.

Additional spellings: aberdene
6 quotations in 1 sense
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Sun-dried or salt codfish. …

2. agrōt(e)ien v.

Additional spellings: agroteien
6 quotations in 1 sense
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To glut or surfeit. …

3. begger(e n.

Additional spellings: beggere
41 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A beggar, mendicant; (b) beggeres route, the assembled beggars; beggeres rowe, place assigned to beggars; bold begger, impudent beggar; (c) a suppliant. …

4. blok(ke n.

Additional spellings: blokke
21 quotations in 3 senses
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(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……

5. boi(e n.(2)

Additional spellings: boie
7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A buoy; (b) boi rop, the rope for fastening a buoy to its anchor. …

6. budde n.

15 quotations in 2 senses
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(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. …

7. burgh-ma(i)ster n.

Additional spellings: burghmaister, burgh-master, burghmaster
2 quotations in 1 sense
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A member of the governing body of a Dutch or North German town, a burgess. …

8. bush n.(1)

73 quotations in 5 senses
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(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. …

9. crankelon n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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A crossbow. …

10. flashe n.

15 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A watery or marshy place, a swamp; a pool or puddle; (b) in place names and surnames. …

11. fraught n.

27 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) The transporting of goods or passengers (usually by water); a charge for transportation; passage money; (b) facilities for transportation. …

12. frē̆sh adj.

219 quotations in 11 senses
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(a) Of recent making or occurrence, new, recent; fresh age, childhood or youth; fresh deluge, a new (or second) deluge; fresh and newe; (b) fresh god, a new or strange god, any god other than the……

13. frē̆ten v.(4)

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To load (a ship); fill (a chest); (b) fret ful of (with), loaded or fraught with (something, esp. something bad), full of. …

14. gloi n.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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Straw, thatching. …

15. gō̆le n.(1)

8 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Gullet of an animal; (b) a throatful, speech, talk. …

16. gōt(e, gǒute n.

Additional spellings: gote, goute
26 quotations in 1 sense
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(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……

17. graffe n.

13 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A graft, a cutting for grafting; also fig.; (b) a twig, branch, shoot; also fig. …

18. happen v.(2)

24 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To cover (sth.) over; enclose, imprison, or conceal with a covering; (b) to attach (sth.) by wrapping, make fast; also fig.; (c) to embrace; happen in hert, love (sb.). …

19. hē̆ring n.

70 quotations in 3 senses
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(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……

20. heuk(e n.

Additional spellings: heuke
18 quotations in 1 sense
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(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)]. …

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