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ginnet
▪ I. † ginnet Obs. rare—1. A carpenter's adze (see quot.).1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. ix. 365/2 The Ginnet is used to cut and take off Irregularities in all sorts of work lying under hand or flat, which the Axe or Hatchet cannot be handled to touch: Some term it an Addice or Adz.▪ II. ginnet obs. for...
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jennet
▪ I. jennet1 (ˈdʒɛnɪt) Forms: α. 5–6 genett, 6 gynnet, 6–7 ginnet, 6–8 gennet(te, 6–9 genet, 7 ganet, 7–9 ginet, 8 gennett. β. 5 iennet(te, 6 ienete, -ate, iannet, ionet, 6–7 ienet(t, 7– jennet. [a. F. genet (in 15th c. also ginet) in same sense, a. Sp. jinete, † ginete, ‘a light horseman that ridet...
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pampilion
† pampilion Obs. Also 5 pampaylyone, 6 -pelyon, -ion, -pilioun, -ian, -pillion, -eoun, -pyllon, pawmpilyon. [Origin unknown. According to quot. 1619 (supported by 1503, 1532) the name of a fur-bearing animal. For sense 2, connexion has been suggested with Pampellone, a town of France near Alby, and ...
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rowsgray
† rowsgray Obs. (Uncertain.) Perhaps two words, the second being grey n. 6.1619 Middleton Love & Antiq. Wks. (Bullen) VII. 331 The names of those beasts bearing fur, and now in use with the..Skinners. The ounce, rowsgray, ginnet.
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genet
▪ I. genet1 (ˈdʒɛnɪt) Forms: 5 jonet, genete, 6 jennet, jenette, 7 ginnet, jenit, 6, 9 genette, 7– gennet, 8– genet. [a. OF. gen(n)ete, -ette, jen(n)ette (F. genette) = Sp. and Pg. gineta, med.L. geneta (mod.L. genetta), a. Arab. jarnait.] 1. A kind of civet-cat, a native of southern Europe, western...
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