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Summertime

June 27, 2015October 28, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, word

OED has it as hyphenated.  “Summer” is a good Old English word with cognates in Old Frisian, Old Norse, and a good handful of other Germanic languages.

  • 07.106 summertime though it was.

“ˈsummer-time, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 29 July 2015.

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Story-telling

June 27, 2015September 21, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, word
  • 03.033 or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing,

Hyphenated in the examples.

“storytelling, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/190988. Accessed 21 September 2017.

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Stone-slide

June 27, 2015September 21, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, JRRT, word
  • 07.082 and of their scramble down the stone-slide

Not found in OED.

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Stone-paved

June 27, 2015September 21, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, word
  • 13.048 Beside it ran a stone-paved road,

Hyphenated in its sub-entry in OED.

“stone, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/190787. Accessed 21 September 2017.

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Stone-giant

June 27, 2015September 21, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, JRRT, word
  • 04.005 he saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out,
  • 07.057 the stone-giants were out hurling rocks,

Not found in OED.

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Steep-walled

June 27, 2015September 21, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, JRRT, word
  • 11.014 and they turned into a little steep-walled bay,

Not found in OED, although ‘steep-sided’ is.

 

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Steep-sided

June 27, 2015September 21, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, word
  • 11.013 in long steep-sided ridges

Hyphenated in its sub-entry.

“steep, adj., n.2, and adv.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/189581. Accessed 21 September 2017.

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Spider-thread

June 27, 2015September 21, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, word
  • 08.123 slashing at spider-threads,

Hyphenated in its sub-entry in OED.

“spider, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/186548. Accessed 21 September 2017.

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Spider-string

June 27, 2015September 21, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, JRRT, word
  • 08.106 as he danced on the spider-string

This word does not appear in OED.

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Spider-rope

June 27, 2015September 21, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, JRRT, word
  • 08.102 only great strands of double-thick spider-rope

This word is not found in OED.

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