endware
Pronunciations
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/ˈɛndˌwæːr/
Pronunciation notes
- Early
- Modern
Noun
A hamlet or township; a small settlement or locality.
Usage- Early
- Essex
- Modern
- Northwestern
- Rare
- Examples
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More examples (2)
To the poor people 6s. 8d. to be paid to the churchwardens to distribute to 40 of the poorest householders at their discretion, only 'this endware to be none of them' [sic].
Yet herin I will commẽde manye of the monaſticall votaries, eſpeciallye Monkes, foꝛ that they were authors of many goodly boꝛowes and endwares, neare vnto their dwellinges, although otherwyſe they pꝛetended to be men ſeparated from the woꝛld.
To John my son my messuage with the lands free and copy in an endware called Beaseleye End in Wethersfield.
Word forms
endwares