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gad-bee
ˈgad-ˌbee [f. gad n.1] = gad-fly 1.1530 Palsgr. 223/2 Gadde be a flye, bourdon. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 318 The bigger kind of bees..and this vermin is called Oestrus (i. the gad-bee or horse flie). 1639 Horn & Rob. Gate Lang. Unl. xix. §221 Cattell stricken with a gad-bee, skip up and down, and run a...
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garabee
† garabee Obs. rare. ? = gad-bee.1692 Hickeringill Good Old Cause 28 Like Beasts stung with a Garabee or Hornet. Ibid. 29. 1702 C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. vi. §12. 52/1 They were just like Beasts that are stung with a Garabee, or Hornet; they ran they knew not whither.
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gad
▪ I. gad, n.1 (gæd) Forms: 4–7 gadd, 5–6 gadde, 8–9 Sc. gaud, gawd, 4– gad. [a. ON. gadd-r spike, nail = OHG. and MHG. gart, Goth. gazd-s:—OTeut. *gazdo-z (cf. L. hasta). From the OTeut. deriv. *gazdjâ comes OHG. gerta (G. gerte), OE. ᵹęrd, ᵹierd, ᵹyrd: see yard. The original sense is probably that ...
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brimse
† brimse Obs. exc. dial. Also 7 brimsee, brimesey, 9 dial. brimps. [First found in 16th c.: identical with ON. brims (Fritzner); also Ger. bremse:—OHG. primisa (Graff), brimissa (Kluge), perh. f. brem- to roar, in sense of ‘boom, buzz loudly’. In Eng. prob. from Norse, though early evidence is wanti...
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