Obs. rare–1. [? perh. some error; OE. *ęnde-waru (collect. sing.) would mean ‘the inhabitants of an end’ (cf. END sb. and -WARE). Halliwell gives ‘Endware, a hamlet, Linc.’; but it is not in the Linc. glossaries.] ? = ENDSHIP.
1577. Harrison, England, II. xiii. (1877), I. 261. The … moonkes … were authors of manie goodlie borowes and endwares, neere vnto their dwellings…. But alas!… They wrought oft great wickednesse, and made those endwares little better than brodelhouses.
