† ontillv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To work for (something); to earn by one's labour.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > attempt [verb (transitive)] > strive for or after
tilla900
strivea1300
aswinkc1300
ofswinkc1300
forstrivec1315
beswink1377
to follow after ——c1390
hacka1450
ontilla1450
prosecutea1530
to scratch for1581
ettle1592
push1595
a1450 (a1325) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (London Univ.) 944 On telye [c1325 Calig. we miȝte biswinke oure mete & libbe bi oure swenche].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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v.a1450- fetch a fetch
- fetch a frisk
- fetch a person over the hips
- fetch a way about
- fetch a windlass
- fetch about
- fetch about a compass
- fetch again
- fetch and carry
- fetch around
- fetch at the doors of
- fetch away
- fetch down
- fetch far or higher
- fetch get into the wake of
- fetch get the wake of
- fetch have the wake of
- fetch headway or sternway
- fetch in
- fetch law of
- fetch of, upon
- fetch off
- fetch one's birr
- fibrositic
- fibrositis