F

Question 1

falter

Answer 1

waver, lose courage
fane temple

Question 2

fare

Answer 2

travel, go on a journey

Question 3

fastness

Answer 3

secure fortress

Question 4

fawn

Answer 4

cringe, grovel

Question 5

fealty

Answer 5

allegiance and service to a lord

Question 6

feign

Answer 6

pretend

Question 7

fell

Answer 7

merciless, terrifying

Question 8

fell2

Answer 8

animal’s hide

Question 9

fell3

Answer 9

moorland hill

Question 10

fender

Answer 10

a metal frame placed around a fireplace

Question 11

fetter

Answer 11

chain, shackle

Question 12

fey

Answer 12

The old senses were ‘fated, approaching death; presaging death’.

Question 13

field

Answer 13

background colour on a flag or shield in heraldry.

Question 14

figured

Answer 14

marked with drawings or writing

Question 15

firth

Answer 15

An inlet of the sea at a wide river estuary

Question 16

flagon

Answer 16

large jug or mug, usually used to hold wine or beer

Question 17

flank

Answer 17

the exposed side of an attacking or marching army

Question 18

flet

Answer 18

ground, floor, a house (the origin of “flat” meaning a storey of a house, an apartment)

Question 19

flittermice

Answer 19

bats

Question 20

flotsam

Answer 20

floating wreckage; flotsam and jetsam items washed up by the sea, or a flood (also used figuratively)

Question 21

flummoxed

Answer 21

bewildered, disconcerted

Question 22

fold

Answer 22

a pen for livestock, especially sheep

Question 23

footpad

Answer 23

a thief (historically, a “footpad” was a highwayman who had no horse)

Question 24

forbear

Answer 24

hold back from

Question 25

forebode

Answer 25

foresee (especially something that is evil)

Question 26

forespeak

Answer 26

foretell, predict

Question 27

foreswear

Answer 27

swear not to do something

Question 28

forgo

Answer 28

let go, do without

Question 29

forlorn

Answer 29

abandoned, desolate

Question 30

forsake

Answer 30

desert, turn away from (the past tense is forsook)

Question 31

forsooth

Answer 31

in truth, actually

Question 32

fortnight

Answer 32

a period of two weeks

Question 33

fosse

Answer 33

a defensive trench or ditch; pit

Question 34

founder

Answer 34

sink, after taking on water

Question 35

fraught

Answer 35

full (of)

Question 36

freshet

Answer 36

a stream, or (strictly) a flood of fresh water

Question 37

furlong

Answer 37

one eighth of a mile (220 yards), or about one fifth of a kilometre