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1. apron, n. View full entry 1307
...An article of dress, originally of linen, but now also of stuff, leather, or other material, worn in front of the body, to protect the clothes from dirt or injury, or simply...
2. araba, n. View full entry 1846
...A wheeled carriage used in the East....
3. backstay, n. View full entry 1626
...Naut. (often pl.) Long ropes, slanting a little abaft, extending from the upper mast-heads to both sides or to the ‘channels’ of the ship, where they are fastened to...
4. barge, n.1 View full entry a1300
...A small sea-going vessel with sails: used spec. for one next in size above the balinger, and generally as = Ship, vessel (in which use it...
5. barouche, n. View full entry 1801
...A four-wheeled carriage with a half-head behind which can be raised or let down at pleasure, having a seat in front for the driver, and seats inside for two couples to sit...
6. barouchet, n. View full entry 1807
...A kind of light barouche....
7. basket, n. View full entry a1300
...A vessel of wickerwork, made of plaited osiers, cane, rushes, bast, or other materials....
8. beam, n.1 View full entry 826
...A tree; only in Old English, exc. in the now unanalysed compounds, hornbeam, quickbeam, whitebeam or beam-tree, names of trees....
9. bed, n. View full entry c995
...A permanent structure or arrangement for sleeping on, or for the sake of rest. In some form or other it constitutes a regular article of household furniture in civilized life, as well...
10. belly, n. View full entry c950
...A bag, skin-bag, purse, pod, husk. Freq. in comb. as béan bælg ‘bean-pod,’ blást-bælgbellows q.v., met-bæl(i)g ‘meat-bag, scrip,’ belly wínbel(i)g...
11. Berlin, n. View full entry 1694
...An old-fashioned four-wheeled covered carriage, with a seat behind covered with a hood. Also Berline from French; so in German. Introduced by an officer of...
12. biga, n. View full entry 1600
...A two-horsed chariot....
13. block, n. View full entry c1305
...A log of wood; part of the trunk of a tree, a stump....
14. body, n. View full entry eOE
...The complete physical form of a person or animal; the assemblage of parts, organs, and tissues that constitutes the whole material organism....
15. bolster, n.1 View full entry OE
...A long stuffed pillow or cushion used to support the sleeper's head in a bed; the name is now restricted to the under-pillow, stuffed with something firm, which extends from side to...
16. † boodge, n. View full entry 1794
...A prominence from the back of the body of a carriage to carry parcels in; the ‘sword-case’. Felton....
17. boot, n.3 View full entry c1325
...A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, usually of leather. (Distinguished from a shoe by extending above the ankle. In earlier times used only by riders:...
18. bounder, n.2 View full entry 1842
...slang. A four-wheeled cab or trap, so called from the bounding motion of the vehicle in passing over rough roads. Obs....
19. bow, n.1 View full entry OE
...gen. A thing bent or fashioned so as to form part of the circumference of a circle or other curve; a bend, a bent line....
20. box, n.2 View full entry a1000
...A case or receptacle usually having a lid....
