† spig-nailn.
Obsolete.
= spike-nail n.
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a1600 Stat. Streets xix, in A. Munday et al. Stow's Survey of London (new ed.) 666/1 No Carts that shall be shod with Spig-naile, that shall come upon the streets of this City.
1672 in J. Strype Stow's Survey of London (1720) II. App. vlii. 49/1 That no..Cart, shod with Iron, or Spignails, or having more Horses than is allowed,..shall take up any Goods within this City.
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n.a1600- to beteach one good day
- to bethink far
- to betrash
- to better and to worse
- to betty about
- to bid a base
- to bid a bead
- to bid a fig, or fig's end for
- to bid a good afternoon
- to bid a good day
- to bid a good even
- to bid a good evening
- to bid a good morrow
- to bid a good night
- to bid a person a base
- to bid a person a good afternoon
- to bid a person a good day
- to bid a person a good even
- to bid a person a good evening
- to bid a person a good morrow
- to bid a person a good night
- to bid a person also the base
- to bid a person base
- to bid a person godspeed
- to bid a person good day