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| KIPES | English dialect word for osier baskets for capturing pickerels or other fish; or, woven containers as measures for produce (5) |
| CAPON | A somewhat unfortunate chanticleer, aka cockerel, that has been castrated and also fattened for eating; a supposedly humorous name for a haddock, herring, sole or other fish; or, from Shakespeare, a l |
| HUBS | English dialect word for fireside shelves for heating pans originally, later the centres/naves of wheels; or, focal points of activities, discussions, places or anything else (4) |
| CLOAM | From "mud", a south-west English dialect word for crocks, dishes, pots or Cornish ovens of earthenware or clay, collectively (5) |
| BASKET | A woven container such as a creel for fish, hamper for picnic food, punnet for strawberries, skep for bees or a trug for garden produce (6) |
| RAN | A migration of salmon or other fish upstream; a downward trickle of paint; a track made or used by a particular animal; or, a sprint, such as that when undergoing the punishment of the gauntlet (3) |
| WAND | Something slender and supple, such as a cutting, osier, sapling, stick, or switch; a baton, caduceus or rod of a conductor, conjurer, diviner, fairy or magician; a mark in archery; or, a "spoolie" for |
| SOCK | From Old English for "light shoe", a word for either of a pair of knitted or woven half-hose for one's feet (4) |
| FINGERLING | A salmon/trout parr or other fish no bigger than one's pinkie; a small digit-shaped potato; or, a diminutive being, aka a hop-o'-my-thumb (10) |
| CLAY | Linked to English dialect for "sticky", word for a natural substance moulded and baked to make bricks, ceramics, cloam, pottery, tiles or other figuline articles; or, earth/mud generally (4) |
| SCROG | Scots or Northern English dialect for a broken branch, bushy place, crab-apple, crooked bush, low tree, scrubby wood, stump or other shrivelled, stunted or withered thing (5) |
| CLOTH | Felted or woven stuff; or, a piece of said fabric, for cleaning, covering a table, sewing, washing-up etc (5) |
| SHOAL | Sandbank or reef visible at low tide; or, an aggregation of herrings, pilchards, sardines or other fish swimming together (5) |
| TEWIT | Northern English dialect for one of a "deceit" of birds also called a green plover, lapwing or pyewipe (5) |
| BOTTLE | To place or preserve beer, fruit, jam, wine etc in glass jars/containers; a bed-warming hottie; or, from "cask, wineskin" and source of "butler", a vessel synonymous with courage (6) |
| MEUNIERE | From the French meaning "in the manner of a miller's wife", a dish of sole or other fish, lightly dredged in flour and sauteed in butter (8) |
| STEELWOOL | A tangled or woven mass of fine metal fibres, used for cleaning or polishing (5,4) |
| WICK | A cord or band of loosely twisted or woven fibres, as in a candle (4) |
| STRAW | Stalks of threshed grain used for bedding for animals or woven into baskets (5) |
| DUMBLEDORES | Old onomatopoeic English dialect term mainly for buzzing or humming insects such as beetles, bumblebees or cockchafers; blunderers; or, dandelions (11) |
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