Treasures New & Old; "Another Round of Homonyms"

We don’t run out of these terms of which we might think there are only a few, but they crop up all the time.

A few months ago, on my way to farthingale, I came upon fascet.

It’s pronounced the same as facet yet is nothing like it. With the c, it means a tool for carrying glass bottles to the annealing furnace, a process in glass making.

Without the c, it is a facet, a plane (flat) surface cut in a diamond to make it sparkle.

Gambol and gamble look so much alike that it is a surprise to see the dictionary distinguish them from one other.

The meaning of gamble is probably from Middle English, me...