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1. shipping(e ger.

Additional spellings: shippinge
25 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A means of passing over water, a ship; accommodation on board a ship; coll. ships; don to shipping, to betake (oneself) on board a ship; taken shipping, travel by ship; (b) traveling in a ship……

2. renning(e ger.(1)

Additional spellings: renninge
78 quotations in 6 senses
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Of a person: (a) running; running in pursuit or hunting; a running, rush; also fig.; at long renning, in the long run; (b) running in sport or contest; a race; ?also, a racecourse [last quot.]……

3. tailling(e ger.

Additional spellings: taillinge
5 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The reckoning of accounts; (b) income, revenue; also, with prob. punning ref. to tail n. 1b.(c) or tail-ende n. (a) [1st quot.]; (c) financial credit;—with punning ref. to tail n. 1b.(c). …

4. lokkinge ger.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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A condition of the teeth; ?looseness, movement in the gums. …

5. swelling(e ger.

Additional spellings: swellinge
60 quotations in 6 senses
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An increase; an increase in the humoral quality of heat. …

6. werlinge ger.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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The act of wattling. …

7. bettringe ger.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Moral improvement, betterment; (b) an improvement (on landed property); (c) compensation paid to the buyer by the seller of wool found to be inferior or defective. …

8. stīing(e ger.

Additional spellings: stiinge
42 quotations in 2 senses
Sense / Definition
With adverbs: (a) the act of moving in a specified direction: stiing up (upward), the act of going up, an ascension, ascent; the act of climbing up; also, the act of ascending spiritually; (b) stiing……

9. ?tọ̄̆knouing ger.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Knowledge, understanding. …

10. wōling(e ger.

Additional spellings: wolinge
3 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The action of wrapping or tying with a cord, binding with rope; naut. the securing of a mast by winding rope around it (b) ?some sort of wrapping or tie for a leather sack or boot [cp. wellinge n……

11. sprenǧing(e ger.

Additional spellings: sprenginge
4 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The action of scattering; also, the shedding of blood; sprenging abrode; water of sprenging, water used for ceremonial cleansing; (b) sprenging togeder, dough; -- used fig. …

12. ratheling ger.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The process of wattling; (b) ratheling line (yerne), naut. coll. thin line or cordage used for ratlines. …

13. lẹ̄chnunge ger.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Healing, cure; (b) a medicament, medicine; also, a spiritual remedy; (c) witchcraft. …

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