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| goose¹ | A tailor's smoothing-iron. (So called from the resemblance of the handle to the shape of a goose's neck.)
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| Gouffer | Gofer: A thin batter-cake on which a honeycomb pattern is stamped by the iron plates between which it is baked. [OED]
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| gout¹ | A specific constitutional disease occurring in paroxysms, usually hereditary and in male subjects; characterized by painful inflammation of the smaller joints, esp. that of the great toe, and the deposition of sodium urate in the form of chalk-stones; it often spreads to the larger joints and the internal organs. [OED]
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| go_to_pot¹ | to be ruined or destroyed, to deteriorate, to go to pieces. [OED]
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| gradely | Good, proper, right, thorough, complete, well, etc
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| graft(1) | Work
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| Grainger(1) | Richard Grainger (1797–1861) Town Clerk, of Newcastle who planned the redevelopment of the town centre.
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| grain¹ | A unit of weight (~65 milligrams) , nominally the weight of a grain of barley. Used by apothecaries when formulating medicines.
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| gratuities | A gift or present (usually of money), often in return for favours or services, the amount depending on the inclination of the giver; in bad sense, a bribe. Now applied exclusively to such a gift made to a servant or inferior official; a ‘tip’.
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| graving dock(1) | An artificial basin excavated, built round with masonry, and fitted with flood-gates, into which ships are received for purposes of loading and unloading or for repair. [OED]
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| Great_coat | Great coat : A long heavy overcoat (OED)
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| green² | Inexperienced, naive, gullible |
| Greneuail | Gráinne Ní Mháille (c. 1530 – c. 1603), Irish queen and folk heroine
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| gridiron |
A cooking utensil formed of parallel bars of iron or other metal in a frame, usually supported on short legs, and used for broiling flesh or fish over a fire. OED.
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| grig | A grasshopper or cricket [OED]
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| groat¹ | Four pence [OED]
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| Groom¹ | A servant who attends to horses [OED]
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| gruel | A light, liquid food made by boiling oatmeal (or occasionally some other farinaceous substance) in water or milk [OED]
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| grunstan | Grind stones [Dictionary of the Scots Language]
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| Guard² | The man who has the general charge and control of a railway train [OED] The term was inherited from the stage-coaching business.
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