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English origin, though the Irish equivalent may have contributed to its popularity.

'With that her couverchef from her head she braid
And over his litel eyen she it laid.'
(Chaucer.)
Word; trace, sign. (Ulster.) 'Did you see e'er a word of a black-avised (black-visaged) man travelling the road you came?'
Wrap and run: 'I gathered up every penny I could wrap and run,' is generally used: the idea being to wrap up hastily and run for it.
 
Yoke; any article, contrivance, or apparatus for use in some work. 'That's a quare yoke Bill,' says a countryman when he first saw a motor car.