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1. ball, n.1 View full entry 1166
...A rounded hill, a knoll. Now Eng. regional (south-west.)....
2. bar, n.1 View full entry c1175
...gen. A straight piece of wood, metal, or other rigid material, long in proportion to its thickness....
3. barley, n. View full entry 1124
...A hardy awned cereal (genus Hordeum), cultivated in all parts of the world; used partly as food, and largely (in Britain and the United States, mainly) in the preparation of...
4. blessed | blest, adj. View full entry c1175
...Consecrated, hallowed, holy; consecrated by a religious rite or ceremony....
5. boon, n.1 View full entry c1175
...A prayer, petition, entreaty, request. Obs....
6. breaker, n.1 View full entry c1175
...One who breaks, crushes, or destroys; so breaker off, etc.; and with defining n. as housebreaker, ship-breaker, etc., q.v....
7. † ˈbury, n. View full entry c1175
...A manor-house, or large farm; a specialization of the Old English burh, byrig ‘an enclosed or fortified place’ which still survives in many local names....
8. charity, n. View full entry 1154
...Christian love: a word representing caritas of the Vulgate, as a frequent rendering of ἀγάπη in N.T. Greek. With various applications: as...
9. Christmas, n. View full entry a1123
...The festival of the nativity of Christ, kept on the 25th of December. Usually extended more or less vaguely to the season immediately preceding and following this day, commonly observed as a...
10. † ˈcotland, n. View full entry a1150
...The piece of arable land (of about 5 acres) held along with his cot by the Old English cotset or cottar....
11. court, n.1 View full entry 1154
...A clear space enclosed by walls or surrounded by buildings; a yard, a court-yard; e.g. that surrounding a castle, or that left for the sake of light, etc. in the...
12. † erf, n.1 View full entry 1154
...Cattle....
13. flume, n. View full entry c1175
...A stream, a river; also, water. Obs....
14. fruit, n. View full entry c1175
...Vegetable products in general, that are fit to be used as food by men and animals. Now usually in pl. Also fruits of the earth or the....
15. garner, n. View full entry c1175
...A storehouse for corn, granary....
16. gatherer, n. View full entry a1200
...One who gathers or collects (in general senses). Also gatherer up....
17. granger, n. View full entry c1112
...One who is in charge of a grange; a farm-bailiff; also, ? a tenant-farmer....
18. greening, n.1 View full entry a1200
...The process of making something green or imparting a green colour, esp. to vegetables or other food. Cf. green2a. Now rare....
19. hanging, adj. (and prep.) View full entry c1170
...Supported above, and not below; suspended, pendulous; projecting downwards; drooping....
20. herdwick, n. View full entry ?c1150
...The tract of land under the charge of a ‘herd’ or shepherd employed by the owner or lord of the manor: see quot. 1537; a pasture-ground, a sheep-farm. Obs....
