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1. bawke, n. View full entry 1880
...A large bucket used in mines for raising coal, etc....
2. ˈbent-ˈwood, n. View full entry 1862
...Wood curved by machinery, used for making furniture. Chiefly attrib....
3. black master, n. View full entry 1823
...A funeral director, an undertaker....
4. cady, n. View full entry 1846
...A hat or cap....
5. daff, n.1 View full entry c1325
...One deficient in sense or in proper spirit; a simpleton, a fool; a coward....
6. docious, adj. View full entry a1860
...Docile, amenable to order....
7. French harp, n. View full entry 1785
...A pedal harp....
8. hunk, n.2 and adj. View full entry 1845
...(local, New York) In children's games: The goal, home, or den; as ‘to reach hunk’; ‘to be on hunk’, contr. ‘to be hunk’ (Cent. Dict.)....
9. † ling, v. View full entry 1674
...intr. Of the tongue: To protrude from the mouth....
10. mudbug, n. View full entry 1955
...A crayfish....
11. mute, n.4 View full entry 1838
...A mule. Also: a hinny....
12. nation, adj., adv., and n.2 View full entry 1765
...Very large, very great....
13. piccolo, n. and adj. View full entry 1831
...= piccolo pianoB.Obs....
14. pikey, n. and adj.1 View full entry 1838
...A traveller, a gypsy; a vagrant, a tramp; (hence more generally) a lower-class person, regarded as coarse or disreputable....
15. pinhooking, n. View full entry 1962
...The practice of buying livestock cheaply (now esp. a very young racehorse) in the expectation of selling it on later at a profit....
16. pitmatic, n. View full entry 1885
...A patois used by miners in the north-east of England....
17. porth, n. View full entry 1860
...A small bay or cove; a river bank....
18. pungy, n. View full entry 1852
...A type of boat; esp. a small keel schooner used in harvesting oysters....
19. pupu, n. View full entry 1950
...In Hawaiian cuisine: a small savoury dish served as an appetizer....
20. pus-gutted, adj. View full entry 1915
...= pussy-gutted...
