this practice will fence us against immoderate displeasure occasionable by men's hard opinions

an ultrashort bond

But there was one knyght that dyd merueyllously thre dayes / and he bare a black shelde / and of alle knyghtes that euer I sawe he preued the best knyȝt / thenne said Kyng mark that was syre launcelot or syre palomydes the paynym

Holonyms: spindle, bearing