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1. acker, n.1 View full entry 1440
...A strong or turbulent current in the sea; a flood tide. Obs....
2. aˈsiden, adv. View full entry 1440
...Sidewise, obliquely, aslant....
3. bat, v.1 View full entry c1440
...trans. To strike with, or as with, a bat; to cudgel, thrash, beat....
4. batch, n.1 View full entry 1440
...The process of baking. Obs....
5. battledore, n. View full entry c1440
...A beetle or wooden ‘bat’ used in washing, also (when made cylindrical) for smoothing out or ‘mangling’ linen clothes; hence also applied to similarly shaped instruments, e.g. the...
6. † bedlar | badlawer, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1419
...Bed-ridden; a person confined to bed....
7. † ˈbirler, n. View full entry c1440
...One who pours out drink....
8. blade, v. View full entry c1440
...trans. To take off the blades (senses 13). dial....
9. blare, v. View full entry c1440
...intr. To roar with prolonged sound in weeping, as a child; to bellow as a calf. Now chiefly dial....
10. bleck, n. View full entry c1440
...Black fluid substance; spec. ink (obs.); a preparation used by curriers and shoemakers for blacking leather (also called bletch, blatch, bleach) (...
11. blore, v. View full entry c1440
...intr. To cry, cry out, weep; of animals, to bleat, bray, bellow....
12. ˈbondship, n. View full entry c1440
...The condition of a ‘bond’; serfdom, bondage (obs.)....
13. † boud, n. View full entry c1440
...A weevil; an insect or worm which breeds in malt, etc. Also in comb., as boud-eaten....
14. brewis, n. View full entry c1440
...Broth, liquor in which beef and vegetables have been boiled; sometimes also thickened with bread or meal. Now chiefly dial., and applied very variously in different localities....
15. † ˈbuggard | buggart, n. View full entry c1440
...A boggard, a bogy....
16. bung, n.1 View full entry c1440
...A stopper; spec. a large cork stopper for the ‘mouth’ of a cask, i.e. the hole in the bulge by which it is filled....
17. ˈcaddow, n.1 View full entry 1440
...A jackdaw....
18. † ˈcamper, n.1 View full entry c1440
...A player at camp-ball; a foot-ball player....
19. ˈcasing, n.1 View full entry 1516
...(See quots.)...
20. cauk, n. View full entry c1440
...= chalk (dial.).Lime. Obs.? Calc spar.Barytes, or heavy spar: see cawk...
