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  • edging
    n. a style of plaiting STRAW1 (Wyannie Malone Museum display). (Black)
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  • edge of the ocean
    [cf. OCEAN deep sea] n. the drop-off dividing shallow water from the deep ocean. cf. SOUNDING (Andros, White)
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  • edge-hog
    /ej hohg/ (Gen.); H-hog /eych hohg/ (San Sal.) [cf. DJE hedgehog fish /eyjag, eychag/] n. the porcupine fish, Diodon hystrix:
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  • eddy
    /édi/ [Car. édo; OED eddoes. . .eddy-root; DJE "cf. Fante edwó(w) yam, ndwo(w) root" also Nupe èdu wild yam sp.
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  • ebony
     [OED, DJE different sp.] n. a small tree, Hypelate trifoliata: 1905 (Shattuck 208). = RED WOOD (Black)
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  • Eboe light-wood
    [DJE idem "at one time used for torches"; cf. US dial. South lightwood very resinous pine or other wood ADD]
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  • Ebo
    /íybow/ [OED Eboe a name applied in the West Indies to the negroes from Benin; cf. the lbo or Igbo
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  • Ebenezer jack
    [etym?] n. a black variety of jack-fish, Caranx sp., which lives in the deep ocean. (Andros, Mayag)
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  • eat someone out
    [cf. Trin. eat out a plate of food (Winer p.c.) and US Black "Beer Rabbit.. .et out the cheese" (Fauset
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  • eat off someone
     [from eat + live off] v. phr. to eat at someone else's expense: She never have lunch no more—she just
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