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Word: Pend
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Middle English (in an earlier sense). Apparently the regional (south-eastern and East Anglian) reflex of an Old English (i-mutated) by-form of pound. Compare Middle Low German pend pond (one isolated attestation in a 15th-cent. translation of an Old Frisian document)
Definition:
Pressure, strain; an awkward or difficult situation.
Word: Pend
Speech Type: Verb
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