Word of the week: After our previous entry, leaftail, a completely different meaning, but connected is that this obscure adjective used until the mid 19th-century crisply describes something withered, dry or brittle, appropriate to falling autumn debris
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Word of the week: Some kind of norse telescope? An instrument to detect scandal? Neither. This week's archaic word originated in 1802 with an invention to automate chimney sweeping and to put dusty child labourers out of danger
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