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Fell (mons)	Looby	Slant
Flake	Lubber	Spar
Flat	Lug (trahere)	Squeal
Froth	Mistake	Stagger
Gall (vulnus)	Odd	Sway (flectere)
Gasp	Pebble	Tarn
Gill (fauces)	Pikestaff	Throb
Glimmer	Rate (vituperare)	Tike
Glum	Reef	Trill
Haberdasher	Rugged	Trip
Happy	Shout	Windlass[1]
Leap year	Skirt	Wrangle

Celtic words, first found in English in the Fourteenth Century.

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Basket	Drudge	Rub
Bodkin	Gown	Spigot
Boisterous	Kick	Spike
Cobbler	Peck (a measure)	Strumpet
Crag	Pour	Tinker
Daub	Rail (a fence)	Whin[2]

TABLE II.

Words, akin to the Dutch and German, first found in England in the Fifteenth Century.

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Block	Bud	Cork
Blow (plaga)	Bulwark	Croon
Brick	Clammy	Chap (scindere)

1. The old word was windass, and l is inserted; r is the favourite insertion in English.
2. Of course, it is hopeless to attempt to give the French words first used in England in this century; they would fill many pages.