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1. lǒuken v.(2)

17 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To drag or pull (sb. or sth.); ?also, carry or lead (sb.) [quot.: c1390]; [last quot. may belong to louken v. (1)]; (b) to pluck out (eyes); louken awei, tear (sth.) off; pull up weeds, ?clear of……

2. lǒuken v.(1)

123 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) To lock (gates, a door); (b) to lock the doors of (a room, prison); lock (a chest); (c) fig. to shut (one's ears, heart, etc.), guard (the mouth, eyes); close (the sea) to navigation; (d) to lock……

3. knẹ̄-lẹ̄k n.

Additional spellings: knelek
1 quotation in 1 sense
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An onion. …

4. toscan-lēac n.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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A plant of the subspecies Equisetum, horsetail. …

5. hol-lēk n.

Additional spellings: hollek
2 quotations in 1 sense
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A kind of onion; prob. the scallion (Allium ascalonicum). …

6. gā̆r-lē̆k n.

Additional spellings: garlek
53 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Garlic (Allium sativum); also, a bulb or a clove of garlic; clove of gar-lek, one of the small bulbs making up a bulb of garlic; (b) wilde gar-lek, some uncultivated member of the genus Allium……

7. crop-mader n.

Additional spellings: cropmader
5 quotations in 1 sense
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Madder. …

8. leigh-tǒun n.

Additional spellings: leightoun
30 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A garden; esp. a kitchen garden, herb garden; leigh-toun cresse, cress grown in a kitchen garden; (b) leigh-toun ward, a gardener; (c) in surname and place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.18]. …

9. lẹ̄k n.

74 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) A leek (Allium porrum); unsette lek, a leek not yet transplanted; (b) garlic (Allium sativum); also, one of a group of sharp-tasting herbs; lek man, a dealer in potherbs; (c) in phrases: grene……

10. bilǒuken v.

Additional spellings: belouken
39 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To shut (sb., sth.) in; lock up or enclose for safekeeping; imprison (sb.); bilouken in hand of fa, deliver into the enemy's hand; bilouken in grave, bury; bilouken heven, Poet. lock the sky (i.e……

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