† shreddenadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Made of shreds; patchwork.
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patched1447
shredden1581
patchy1583
of shreds (and patches)1604
patchwork1634
patched work1716
desultory1842
unpatterned1842
patchworky1845
patchworked1873
splashy1880
spotty1881
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 433 b I do shuffle together a number of raggs of auncient writers scraped together, to make upp a poore shredden coverlett, to cover the nakednes of their Idolatry.
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adj.1581- to keep, break the sabbath
- to keep, lose, etc one's virginity
- to keep, lose, etc virginity
- to keep, take the lease
- to keep, take to or for one's own store
- to keep, take up one's standing house
- to keep, take up standing house
- to keep, tend store
- to kemb from or off
- to ken one's own groats in other folks' kail
- to ken thank
- to kep a catch
- to kep a slap
- to kep a strait
- to kep a stress
- to kep skaith
- to ketch home
- to key down
- to key in
- to key into
- to key on
- to key to
- to key up
- to kick a man when he is down
- to kick a person into the long grass