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Archaic Dialectical Lexicon Unearthed
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  • 1. A large quantity, often in northern English dialects
  • 2. Once the boat’s upper edge, now awash in nautical silence
  • 3. An old Scots epithet for a lazy, worthless fellow
  • 4. To drink heartily, now vanished except in wizarding lore
  • 5. A Scots verb meaning to jerk or pull sharply from yore
  • 8. Old mining tunnels, now echoing in dialectal memory
  • 9. Old broom bristling with twigs, sweeping away time
  • 11. Old Scottish gossip or tittle-tattle, lost in modern tongues
  • 14. An obsolete dialect term for a fool or simpleton
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  • 6. Ancient term for reclaiming or retaking, a linguistic relic
  • 7. To lie in wait, an archaic hunting term from northern tongues
  • 10. A child, especially a toddler, in rural obsolete dialects
  • 12. To fish with a crooked pin, an archaic angling art
  • 13. A small ditch or moat long abandoned in regional speech
  • 15. Bondage state in Norse dialects, now a ghost of servitude
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