See lew in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1887, W. D. Parish & al., Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect",
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"(transitive) To shelter from the wind."
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"english": "[She is] not far, she comes, look, look! She brings in her bill something new—behold! It is an olive tree's branch, I think.",
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