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a-heáwan

  • verb [ strong ]
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Grammar
a-heáwan, p. -heów; pp. -heáwen
Wright's OE grammar
§646;
To hew or cut out or off, hew down, prepare by cutting, mate smooth, plane; excidere, resecare, succidere, levigare
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  • On hys niwan byrgene, ða he aheów on stáne

    in monumento suo novo, quod exciderat in petra.

    • Mt. Bos. 27, 60
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  • On aheáwene byrgene

    in monumento exclso,

    • Lk. Bos. 23, 53
    • :
    • Bd. 3, 6; S. 528, 26
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  • Ic wæs aheáwen holtes on ende, astyred of stefne mínum

    I was hewn down at the end of a wood, removed from my trunk,

    • Rood Recd. 57
    • ;
    • Kr. 29
    • .
  • Aheáwen treów

    cut wood, timber;

    lignum

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    • Ælfc. Gr. 8; Som. 8, 1
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  • Of aheáwenum bordum

    of hewn or planed boards;

    de lignis levigatis,

    • Gen. 6, 14
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