"This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago."
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A librarian at Texas State University has created an entire Research Guide dedicated to using the OED. It's very helpful--just remember that you'll need to access the OED through the WVU site, so links in the TSU guide may not work: https://guides.library.txstate.edu/c.php?g=184334&p=1219511