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most of the definitions in the oed are about awls and winnowing but also there's:

'Apparently a northern word taken up by Spenser. Recorded in modern dialect from Yorkshire and Lancashire. The immediate source is unknown.
Active, nimble.

(Scandinavian words of appropriate form (eg Norwegian 'vimmel'=giddy, confused) have not the required sense.)'

Couldn't find a Yorkshire/Lancashire dialect book..
And the wimble stone I posted is in Somerset, besides, so maybe it's not as local as that.

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Posted by Rhiannon
22nd September 2004ce
11:20

In reply to:

Re: hmmm (FourWinds)

Messages in this topic:

Calling morfe

(Kammer, Sep 20, 2004, 15:00)

Re: Calling morfe (wideford, Sep 21, 2004, 10:51)
- Re: Calling morfe - NGR to 6 figures (wideford, Sep 21, 2004, 11:06)
- Re: Calling morfe (Kammer, Sep 21, 2004, 11:15)
  - Re: Calling morfe (wideford, Sep 21, 2004, 13:51)
Re: Calling morfe (morfe, Sep 21, 2004, 12:10)
- Re: Calling morfe (morfe, Sep 21, 2004, 12:23)
- Re: Calling morfe (Kammer, Sep 21, 2004, 12:24)
  - Re: Calling morfe (morfe, Sep 21, 2004, 12:43)
    - Re: Calling morfe (FourWinds, Sep 21, 2004, 14:32)
      - Re: Calling morfe (morfe, Sep 21, 2004, 15:38)
- wimble (Rhiannon, Sep 22, 2004, 08:11)
  - Re: wimble (morfe, Sep 22, 2004, 09:30)
    - Re: wimble (Rhiannon, Sep 22, 2004, 09:54)
      - hmmm (morfe, Sep 22, 2004, 09:58)
        Re: hmmm (Rhiannon, Sep 22, 2004, 10:10)
        Re: hmmm (FourWinds, Sep 22, 2004, 10:29)
        from the oed (Rhiannon, Sep 22, 2004, 11:20)
Re: Calling morfe (Ivan Monckton, Oct 15, 2020, 21:26)
- Re: Calling morfe (Ivan Monckton, Oct 15, 2020, 21:32)

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