The Wright's Chaste Wife - A Merry Tale (about 1462) by of Cobsam Adam
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O, 329, one. Onredde, 308; AS. _unrét_, _unrót_, uncheerful, sorrowful, or _unrǽd_, imprudent. Oþre, 205, second. Putry, 61, adultery; O. Fr. _puterie_, whoring. Rawte, 503, reached, gave. Rewe, 186, have pity. Rocke, 503, 508; Du. _een Rocke_, _Spinrock_, A Distaffe, or a Spin-rock; _Rocken_, To Winde Flaxe or Wool upon a Rock (Hexham). Dan. _rok_, O.N. _rokkr_, G. _rocken_: "a distaff held in the hand from which the thread was spun by twirling a ball below. 'What, shall a woman with a _rokke_ drive thee away?'" Digby Mysteries, p. 11 (Halliwell). "An Instrument us'd in some Parts for the spinning of Flax and Hemp." Phillips; for reeling and spinning (l. 529). Rought, 198, AS. _róhte_, p. of _récan_, to reck, care for. Ryde, 524, light, small, AS. _geryd_, levis, æquus, Lye. Ryue, 642, Du. _rijf_, rife, or abundant. Scales, 401; ? husks, bark, or rind, see _shoves_*, in _Swyngylle_, below. |
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