thin wire; thin string

[…] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.

So, in Kent, to wrong-take a person is to take him wrong, to misunderstand him, and a ribspare is a spare rib.

Man is the work and effection of God