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1. dunch(e n.

Additional spellings: dunche
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A loud noise, crash; a blow. …

2. colk n.

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(a) The core (of an apple); the heart (of an onion); sparen neither appel ne colk, to do all one can, go as quickly as possible; (b) the center or bottom (of the heart). …

3. nippe n.

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(a) A hill or crag; ?an extremity; (b) in place name [see Smith PNElem. 1.254]. …

4. shrink n.

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A wrinkle. …

5. slenden v.

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(a) To split open, become cracked; fracture (a bone); (b) slenden of, to cut off (sth.). …

6. clọ̄ke n.(2)

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Claw; also fig.; -- only in pl. …

7. scōpen v.(1)

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To leap, skip, bound. …

8. crul adj.

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(a) Of the hair or head: curly; (b) as surname. …

9. rugged adj.

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(a) Hairy, shaggy-haired; of hair: shaggy, bristly; (b) of clothing: tattered, ragged; (c) of a metal nail: ?blunt; ?crudely made. …

10. tod(de n.

Additional spellings: todde
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A measurement of weight for wool, usually 28 lbs. …

11. sleck n.

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Mud, slush; also [last quot.], ?stony soil; ?soil containing coal. …

12. intak n.

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A piece of enclosed land taken from a moor or from a common; -- only in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.304]. …

13. ?kiwing n.

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?Each thing; ?belly things, food and drink. …

14. thwert nai phr.

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Certainly not, in no way, to the contrary; law as a formula for categorical denial of a complaint: absolutely not, not so; seien (ouen) thwert nai. …

15. carpen v.

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(a) To talk, chat, converse, discourse; carpen toward, address (sb.); (b) tell (sth.), say; ask (a question); as I have herd carpen, as I have heard tell; as men do carpen, as people say; to carpen……

16. scratten v.

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(a) To scratch (sb., the face, etc.) with the nails; ppl. scratted, scratched (by thorns, etc.); (b) to scratch with the nails; (c) in surname. …

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