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spalliard
▪ I. † ˈspalliard1 Obs. rare. Also 7 spaliard, 9 spallier. [Of obscure origin: cf. spadiard.] A labourer engaged in tin-mining.1625 Laws Stannaries xii. (1808) 21 A labouring tinner, a blower, owner of blowing-houses, a spalliard, or adventurer. 1630 J. Doddridge Dvtchy of Cornewall 93 The laborious...
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spadiard
† spadiard Obs. Also 7 spador, 8 spadier. [Explained by Holland (Camden's Brit. 185) as f. spade n.1, but perh. an error for spalliard1.] A labourer in the Cornish tin-mines.1610 Holland Camden's Brit. To Rdr. 3 A Spadiard that worketh in mines, who while he..followeth the maine vaines, seeth not th...
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pleach
▪ I. pleach, n. (pliːtʃ) [f. pleach v.] Interlacing, intertwining; intertwinement of boughs; spec. a flexible branch or stake or an intertwined arrangement of these, forming a hedge.1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 45 His nest, the pleach Of many a wilding bough in the next giant beech. 1823 E....
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