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þreáp

  • noun [ masculine ]
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a troop, band
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  • Þreápum

    commanipularibus, sociis

    (perhaps heápum should be read,
  • cf.

    efenheápum

    conmanipularibus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 20, 27
    • ;
    or þreátum;
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    v. þreát:
    but þreáp may have a double sense as þreát has (see, too, þreápian, þreátian); in later English it remains with the meaning strife, contest, e.g.: Wituten threp (ani enuy, alle chidyng) or strijf,
    • C. M. 13310.
  • This þrepe (the siege of Troy) for to leue,

    • Destr. Tr. 9845:
  • perhaps, also, in sense of troop : -- An feondes trume ... þe saules ... awarieþ al a-þrep (in a troop? or = Ital. a gara) al so wulues doþ þe step,
    • Misc. 149, 85.
    Halliwell gives thrap to crowd, as an Essex word),
    • Hpt. 477, 52
    • ;
    • 487, 33.
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