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Word: Reest
Speech Type: Noun
Old English; earliest use found in Corpus Glossary. Cognate with (with varying suffixation) Middle Dutch riester, reester mouldboard (Dutch rister), Old Saxon rioster plough handle, share-beam (Middle Low German riester), Old High German riosta plough handle, share-beam, riostar ploughshare, share-beam, plough handle, riostra plough handle, share-beam (Middle High German riester, German Riester), probably from the same Germanic base as Old High German riuten to root out (Middle High German riuten, German reuten; from a different ablaut grade compare also Middle Dutch rōden, Middle Low German rōden), probably ultimately from the same Indo-European base as ripe and reif
Any of various parts of a plough; specifically †(a) the share-beam (obsolete); (b) a mouldboard; (c) a piece of wood or iron fixed beneath a mouldboard.
Word: Reest
Speech Type: Verb
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