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Neighbour

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1592, OED Evaluation: NA

Of a person: to live near or close (to, †unto a person, place, etc.).

ExampleMeaning
Well, the threshing mill, it took about ah, fifteen, twelve-fifteen, we usually had quite a few men, sometimes seventeen or eighteen, because Dad neighboured with quite a few other farmers around, and he didn't want to be scarce of help.
to live near or close
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Not that- not that we realized, li-- um, part of the neighbourhood was, I think, from probably Northern Ireland, a part from Southern Ireland because some were Catholics, some were Protestants, but there was- we got along very well, everyone neighboured and there was no distinction between Catholics or Protestants or-whatever, it was-
to live near or close