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      • Reverse Dictionary DISABILITY - DISCOVERY
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      • Reverse Dictionary DO - DOLTISH
      • Reverse Dictionary DOMESTIC - DRAGONFLY
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      • Reverse Dictionary EXACERBATE - EXCELLENTLY
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      • Reverse Dictionary FOOD - FOOD POISONING
      • Reverse Dictionary FOOL - FOOLISHNESS
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      • Reverse Dictionary HONEST - HORROR-STRUCK
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      • Reverse Dictionary IMBECILE - IMPERVIOUS
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      • Reverse Dictionary. LIBEL - LION
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      • Reverse Dictionary MALL - MARMOT
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      • Reverse Dictionary MENTAL - MILDNESS
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      • Reverse Dictionary MONEY - MONEY ORDER
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GREKING

25/1/2015

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also GRAYKYNG, GREIKING, GREYKING, GRIGING, GRIKING, 
GRIKINGE, GRYGYNGE, GRYKING

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Corresponds to Middle Dutch grakinge, griekinge of the same meaning; 
apparently a derivative, with -k-suffix, from the root of Old Norse gryacuja to dawn
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a 1300 - An Early English Psalter;
see below From: The Publications of the Surtees Society
Anglo-Saxon and Early English Psalter
Volume II 1847
P. 45
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From: The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas,
Bishop of Dunkeld,
With Memoir, Notes, and Glossary,
By John Small, F.S.A. Scot, 1874
Book IV, The Fowrt Buik of Eneados

(How queen Dido beheld Aeneas depart,
And what she said with harms at her heart)
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Peter James Hanby
28/2/2022 10:16:44 am

Have seen gryking in quarrying and mining contexts as meaning prizing off slabs/ blocks from the working face. Gryke is defined elsewhere as a noun but not gryking as a verb.

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