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Want or Went

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A road. Thus “the four-want way,” the spot where four roads meet. Chaucer uses the expression “a privie went” (private road), etc.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Walton
Walton Bridle (The)
Wamba
Wan means thin
Wand
Wandering Jew
Wandering Willie or Willie Steenson
Wandering Wood
Wans Dyke
Want or Went
Wants
Wantley
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War of the Meal-sacks
War of the Roses
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