(now chiefly dialectal) Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
(now rare) A (neutral) condition or state.
(obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
(obsolete) Good health.
A dire or unfortunate situation.
verb
(obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
(reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
(transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
(transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.
potleg
putlog
putlog
noun
(architecture) One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose.