† ruraten.
Obsolete. rare.
Perhaps: a rural clergyman.
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c1540 Phylogamus sig. A.vv O Poet rare and Recent..Sparyng no Prest or Curate Cyuylyan or Rurate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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n.c1540- to drive the nail to the head
- to drive the porcelain bus
- to drive through
- to drive to a book
- to drive to book
- to drive to hething
- to drive to scorn
- to drive to the wall
- to drive to the worst
- to drive under
- to drive up
- to drive up the wall
- to drive with the weather
- to drive, force, throw a oneself into the arms of
- to drive, force, throw a oneself into the arms of someone
- to drive, force, throw a oneself into the arms of something
- to drive, force, throw a person into the arms of
- to drive, force, throw a person into the arms of someone
- to drive, force, throw a person into the arms of something
- to drive, force, throw into the arms of
- to drive, force, throw into the arms of someone
- to drive, force, throw into the arms of something
- to drop a bollock
- to drop a brick
- to drop a clanger