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dung-cart
ˈdung-cart A cart used to convey manure.c 1386 Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 216 He..fond A dong Carte as it went for to donge lond. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §146 To helpe her husbande to fyll the mucke wayne or donge cart. 1606 Choice, Chance, etc. (1881) 48 What a spight it was to see a horse of seruice drawe ...
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Engelbert II of Berg
Engelbert's body was taken to Cologne on a dung-cart, and when examined, found to have forty-seven wounds.
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dung
▪ I. dung, n. (dʌŋ) Forms: 1– dung, (3 ding), 4–6 dunge, dong(e, 4–7 doung(e, (6 dungue, doong, 6–7 dongue). [OE. dung = OFris. dung, OHG. tunga manuring, mod.G. dung and dünger manure. Cf. also Sw. dynga dung, muck, Da. dynge heap, hoard, mass, pile, mod.Icel. dyngja heap, dung. The original sense ...
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swan-neck
ˈswan-neck Also swan's neck. [Cf. G. schwanenhals, Sw. svanhals; in MHG. swanhals = narrow sickle.] 1. A neck like that of a swan; a long slender (white) neck. Quots. 1823 and 1867 refer to the cognomen Swanneshals (see halse n.) = ‘swan's neck’ of a certain Eadgyth (Edith), a mistress of Harold, ki...
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Bibliography of King Arthur
The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf
Parsifal's Page
The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart
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coup-cart
coup-cart (ˈkaʊpˌkɑːt) [f. coup n.1, n.2, or v.3] 1. = coup n.2 1, a box-cart.1794 Statist. Acc. Scotl. XII. 185 (Jam.) In the year 1750, there were but two box-carts, or what is here called coup carts, in the parish [of St. Vigeans, Forfar], but at present there is no other kind made use of here. 1...
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whip-
whip- in combination. 1. Combinations of the n. a. General attrib., as whip-crack, whip-flick, whip-leather, whip-mark, whip-stroke, whip-thong. b. Instrumental, objective, similative, etc., as whip-cracking (n. and adj.), whip-maker, whip-making, whip-minder, whip-smacking; whip-corrected, whip-lik...
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tumbrelle
▪ I. tumbrel1, tumbril (ˈtʌmbrəl, -ɪl) Forms: 4 tombrel, 4–5 tumberell, tumrelle, 5 tomberel, tomerel, tumrel, 5–7 tumbrell, 6 -e, tumrell, tomberell, -brill, 6–8 -brell, 7 -bril, 8 tumbral, 9 dial. tumril, 6– tumbrel, -il; also 6–7 timbrell. [ad. med.L. tumb(e)rellum (Du Cange), -ellus, OF. tumb-, ...
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binne
▪ I. bin, n. (bɪn) Forms: 1 binn(e, 2–8 binne, 4–6 bynne, byn, 5–7 bene, 7–8 binn, 1– bin. [OE. binn(e str. fem. ‘manger, crib, hutch, bin.’ In later times a good deal confused with bing. Franck compares Du. beun, MDu. bunne fem. ‘fish-cauf.’ Others would refer OE. binn(e directly to late L. benna, ...
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cart
▪ I. cart, n. (kɑːt) Forms: 3–7 carte, (3 karte, 3–4 kart), 6 (charte), Sc. cairt, 3– cart. [OE., had cræt neut., pl. cratu, app. related to Du. krat neut. ‘hind part of a cart’ (which is, however, only mod.Du. and suspected to be of recent adoption). Some compare OHG. cratto, crezzo, masc., MHG. kr...
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