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Rh narrower above than below, = $2$. dunk,, a keg, a barrel-shaped vessel, and dunk,, also an earthen or stone bottle. The suffix - in the word appears to be the old sign -r, which has been grafted to the root of the word.

dunki [do‘ŋki],, damp and misty, of weather; he’s very d. of ,

dunt [do‘nt],, 1) a thump; stroke; heavy fall, a d. o’ a fa’ ; a fall with a rebound, that of a ball, a shuttlecock . 2) a dull sound caused by a stroke or a falling object. and dunt,, a push; thump; dunt, dount,  dyntr,, a din; heavy fall; push, in , one of a series of small bumps up and down (B.H.).

dunt [do‘nt],, 1) to strike; push; I my head i’ de door . 2) to fall with a thump; to fall and rebound, of a ball, a shuttlecock . 3) to tramp, to geng . dunta, dynta, dunta, dynta,, to shake, push; in  also to shake up and down; dunt, , to strike; thump.

dunter [do‘ntər],, eider-duck; also “d.-duke [‘duck’]”. Really one that bobs up and down, a diver. of, ; dynta,, to bob lightly up and down. — is found in Yell as a nickname for a person with a jerky gait: “de D.” — “dunter” is found in designating a porpoise. “dunter-goose” is given by Jam. in the sense of an eider-duck, with Brand as authority (Brand’s Description of Orkney and Shetland), which indicates that “dunter” in the sense of eider-duck is characteristic of and ; and  sources are also given in the E.D.D. (Brand, Swainson).

dur [dūr],, a slumber; nap, now of drowsy, lethargic movements; drowsy gait; being in the clouds.  dúrr,  dúrur, dur,, a short sleep; a doze; nap.

dur [dūr],, to doze; to move drowsily and torpidly, to geng aboot. dúra,, to sleep lightly; and  dúra, and dura,, to sleep lightly; to doze.

durasuk [dū··rasūk·, -suk·], , draught between doors or through a narrow passage; also [dor··asuk·] and [dɔr··osuk·]. *dura-súgr. dyrr,, door ( dura); súgr,, a draught of wind. ,

dus [dus],, 1) a stroke; blow; to gi’e ane a d. 2) a stamping; tramping. 3) =, a light thrashing of a small quantity of corn . dus, ,  douss, a blow; stroke.

dus [dus],, 1) to knock; strike. 2) to stamp; tramp; to geng ower (de face o’) de eart’, to stamp forcibly along. 3) to thrash a small quantity of corn lightly, =, ; ut twa [‘two’] sheaves! .  dusa, , to fall; tumble down; beat violently.  douse, dowse,

duska (doska) [doska (dɔska)] and dosk, dosker [dȯsk, -ər],, 1) mist; misty clouds; haze (really a slight darkness); der’r a d. on de land; ; 2) a light shower, a o’ a shooer [‘shower’];  (dosker). and duska,, to drizzle, as from fog; duskug, , somewhat dusky, misty and damp (of atmosphere, weather). Cognate with dusk, , , and ,

dusket [duskət (doskət)],, somewhat dusky-coloured; dirty-grayish, a d. colour. of “dusk”,