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1. kitchen, n. View full entry c1000
...That room or part of a house in which food is cooked; a place fitted with the apparatus for cooking. Clerk of the Kitchen: see clerk6a....
2. limpet, n. View full entry c1050
...A gasteropod mollusc of the genus Patella, having an open tent-shaped shell and found adhering tightly to the rock which it makes its resting-place....
3. shred, n. View full entry c1000
...A fragment cut or broken off; a strip; a scrap....
4. smock, n. View full entry a1000
...A woman's undergarment; a shift or chemise. Now arch. or dial. (common down to 18th cent.)....
5. ˈspicket, n.1 View full entry 14..
...A spigot....
6. † tapet, n. View full entry a900
...A piece of figured cloth used as a hanging, table-cover, carpet, or the like....
7. whiting, n.1 View full entry 14..
...A gadoid fish of the genus Merlangus, esp. M. vulgaris, a small fish with pearly white flesh, abundant off the coast of Great Britain, and highly esteemed as...
8. woodcock, n. View full entry c1050
...A migratory bird, Scolopax rusticula, allied to the snipe, common in Europe and the British Islands, having a long bill, large eyes, and variegated plumage, and much esteemed as food....
