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1. bak n.

156 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) The back of the body of man or beast; (b) bak and beli (brest, side, etc.); (c) the rear end. …

2. abak adv.

34 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Of motion: to the rear, backward, back; away; gon bak, stirten abak, throuen abak, fallen abak; drauen abak, withdraw; (b) of direction: back; loken abak; speken abak, reply; (c) of position……

3. bach n.(1)

13 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A stream or its valley; vale, dale, hollow; cou bach, cow pasture; (b) in names [see Smith PNElem. 1.23]. …

4. bak-ern n.

Additional spellings: bakern
1 quotation in 1 sense
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A bakehouse or bakery. …

5. bak adv. (& adj.)

16 quotations in 2 senses
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Of motion or direction: to or toward the rear; away; backward(s; bakker, bakkermore, farther to the rear, farther away. …

6. bāk(e-hǒus n.

Additional spellings: bakhous, bake-hous, bakehous
24 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A building or a room equipped for baking bread, a bakery (as in a lord's household, a village); comon bak-hous; also, a bakery with its staff of officers and servants; office of the bak-hous,……

7. diveling adv.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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Headlong, sprawling, flat on the ground. …

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