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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural obsolete See
lends .
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Examples
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The little that was written was conceived in the Latin tongue by a few clerks, who expressed every meeting of lendes, herren, or ricohombres, by the word concilium.
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Fra kare it tornes pat kyend, & lendes in myrth & glew.
Love is Life 1917
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The retainer doth some service, that now and then but holds your Honors styrrop, or lendes a hande over a stile, or opens a gappe for easier passage, or holds a torch in a darke waie: enough to weare your Honors cloth.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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Yon mangades mande ta well ta dikk a len, adre lendes ker apre o chumba kai atchena pa o wen.
The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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4.2.4: And geueth nought but to the lendes, to take the same againe.
AnWulf commented on the word lendes
girden (up) lendes - to wrap (one's, someone's) loins; cover (one's) nakedness; fig. gird (one's) loins, prepare, get ready.
October 19, 2011
AnWulf commented on the word lendes
lendes and lenden are plurals of lende.
Before it was "gird your loins" it was "gird the lendes"!
Byspels: Tak we þe armor of God..gird þe lendis in trowþ.
October 19, 2011