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† ˈendware Obs. rare—1. [? perh. some error; OE. *ęnde-waru (collect. sing.) would mean ‘the inhabitants of an end’ (cf. end n. and -ware). Halliwell gives ‘Endware, a hamlet, Linc.’; but it is not in the Linc. glossaries.] ? = endship.
1577Harrison England ii. xiii. (1877) i. 261 The moonkes were authors of manie goodlie borowes and endwares neere unto their dwellings..But alas..they wrought oft great wickedness and made those endwares little better than brodelhouses. |