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Air-holes

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OED does not list “air-hole” as a variant spelling of “air hole”, but the example texts use the hyphen from the 1700s to the 1900s (and “airhole” as well)

  • 09.038 made a great fuss about his air-holes

“air hole, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.

Wolf-rider

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  • 17.048 These were the swiftest wolf-riders,

This word is attested in OED as found in:

“Belsta, and Heidr, and Hulla..the wolf-riders.”  Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton · Harold, the last of the Saxon kings · 1st edition, 1848 (3 vols.).  London

Spactacular!  The “wolf” entry in the OED is another one that can keep me occupied for great lengths of time.

“wolf, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/229845. Accessed 21 September 2017.

Wood-elf

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  • 08.130 Then the Wood-elves had come to him,
  • 08.131 The feasting people were Wood-elves,
  • 08.131 in the Wide World the Wood-elves lingered
  • 08.144 for Wood-elves were not goblins,
  • 09.001 Out leaped Wood-elves with their bows
  • 09.011 Companies of the Wood-elves,
  • 09.016 would suffer seriously if the Wood-elves claimed part of it,
  • 09.018 for the Wood-elves,
  • 09.025 It must be potent wine to make a wood-elf drowsy;
  • 10.003 and the Wood-elves
  • 10.003 and the river was guarded by the Wood-elves’ king.
  • 10.009 to be taken back up the stream to the Wood-elves’ home.
  • 10.018 they were friends with the Wood-elves.
  • 10.025 their knives had been taken from them by the wood-elves,
  • 10.033 in the Wood-elves’ realm.
  • 10.036 The Wood-elves themselves began to wonder greatly
  • 10.040 In the meanwhile the Wood-elves had gone back
  • 12.007 or rough wood-elves’ cave.
  • 18.024 to the Wood-elves’ realm

This word is not found in OED.

After-supper

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  • 01.036 which he had baked that afternoon for his after-supper morsel.

It must take a great deal of planning to work in all of one’s Hobbit meals.  If supper is some time after 8PM, I imagine that after-supper morsel would be what I call a bedtime snack.

Update 2017.09.05 – I was delightfully mistaken: after-supper is a proper name for a time of day, and OED says archaic.  I am reminded of another very important time of day.

“after-supper, n. and adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.