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Rh saw) k.-c.”, to cut (saw) diagonally. . [kepən]-corner: The first part of the  is the same word as  keper, kipper,, cloth woven diagonally, twill, and cognate with  keifr, , askew.

kepp,, see ,

kepp [k$i$æp, ᶄɛp, ᶄæp],, to try one’s strength or skill in a competition, to vie with someone; to strive to be chief or first, in a race. In the same senses keppa, keppask, (from “kapp”,, eagerness, competition). More common in than  is the form [kɛ‘mp, kæ‘mp (ᶄɛ‘mp, ᶄæ‘mp)], which is most  borrowed from (kemp, ), though a) “kampast” is found in like “kjeppast”, and b) “kampas, kämpas” in like “käppas”. — In the sense of to hinder, stop (someone or something),, on the other hand, is kep,

kepper [kɛpər, k$i$ɛpær, ᶄɛpər (ᶄæpər)], , a short stick, billet of wood put into a horse's mouth to prevent it from eating corn, hay, potatoes, The “k$i$ɛpær” is noted down in Also  [kɩbər]: ? - is a fossilized nominative ending,, on the other hand, is found in the ; keppr,, a cudgel; club. — As a place-name, name of a hill, a form [kɛp, kæp] is found in hill by Helliness,  “de  [kɛb]”, name of a conical-shaped hill near Kebbister,, is the same word (name) with change of pp to bb. As the name of a hill the word arises rom a root-meaning: knot; keppr,, a) mallet, cudgel; b) knot.
 * “de o’ ”, a

kepper [kɛpər (k$i$ɛpær), ᶄɛpər, (ᶄæpər)], , in the “to k. a horse”, to put a billet of wood, a , into a horse’s mouth to prevent it from eating corn, hay, potatoes, See the preceding substantive, from which the verbal form (with the fossilized nominative sign -er of the substantive, preserved) is a later derivative. There may have been an earlier form, *,, from an original *keppa.

†kepperwari,, see.

keptet [kɛptət, ᶄɛptət, kæptət] and kebdet [kɛbdət (ᶄɛbdət), kæbdət], , having jaws or mouth of a certain shape, in such as , keptr, kjaptr,, jaw; mouth. — As a place-name, name of some cultivated patches of ground, is found “de [kɛp··tatɔŋs·, -kɛp··ti-]” (Seter, ), originally “*kepta (kjapta)-tungur”, named from their outline.
 * of

ker [kēr], properly, dear, but now only as an exclamation in a tender, caressing tone: Oh, [kērə] ! . In address to children: for dis [‘this’] ting! cam’ I till! : my treasure! my dear one! — With the suffixed, grafted possessive pronoun my, , , is found in [kē··rəmi·], ''my dear one! my treasure!'' ; oh ! what is happened? . — kærr, , dear. With   kjær, , and kjæra,, a dear soul, in such as: “kjæren min” and “kjæra mi”, in address: my dear! — [kȯri],, is another form developed from “kærr”, still partly used as a pure adjective. — may sometimes be confused with “care”, in exclamations, as “oh, care and dule”! ''woe is me! woe worth'' the day!

kerfi [k$i$æ‘rfi],, a bunch, bundle (of rushes). See further , ,

kerlin [kērlɩn, kē$ə$rlɩn] and kerl [kē$ə$rl],, properly a crone, but now