† lecherwiten.
a perversion (after lecher n.1) of Old English legerwite (see lairwite n.).
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lairwitec1230
letherwite1297
lecherwitea1425
whore toll1545
buttock-mail?1552
stool-mail1837
a1425 ( in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1882) I. 52 Lecherwyt.
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n.a1425- to have or get set
- to have or get the gimmes
- to have or give a list
- to have or go in upon good cards
- to have or hold a person suspect
- to have or hold a thing suspect
- to have or hold a wolf by the ears
- to have or hold by the toe
- to have or hold suspect
- to have or keep a person in await
- to have or keep in await
- to have or keep the weather gage of
- to have or make one's refuge to
- to have or make refuge to
- to have or make scruple of
- to have or make utterance
- to have or make … utterance
- to have or pitch one's tent(s
- to have or receive the canvass
- to have or take a stitch against
- to have or take a whack at
- to have or take good await
- to have or take its rise
- to have or take one's swinge
- to have or take scope