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ge-rǽde

  • noun [ neuter ]
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ge-rǽde, es; n.
Add: The word seems used only in the pl. , ge-rǽdu(-a). An ornament, trapping.
for a person
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  • Wé lǽrað ꝥ man geswíce higeleásra gewǽda and dislicra gerǽda,

      Ll. Th. ii. 248, 16.
for a horse
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  • Ǽfteráp postela, gerǽdu falere, brídel

    frenum,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 84, 5-7.
  • Gerǽda effipia, Hpt. 31, 7, 85 : effipiam, 6, 82. þæt hors mid ðám cynelicum gerǽdum þe him on stódon

    equum, ita ut erat stratus regaliter

    ,
      Bd. 3, 14 ; Sch. 257, 15 : By. 190.
  • Módigne stédan mid gyldenum gerǽdum gefreatewodne,

      Hml. Th. i. 210, 15.
  • Ridende on horsum mid gyldenum gerǽdum,

      Hml. S. 25, 491.
  • Ic bicge hýda and fell, and gearkie hig, and wyrce of him . . . brídelþwancgas and gerǽda

    (frenos et phaleras),

      Coll. M. 27, 35.
Etymology
[Cf. Icel. reiði harness of a horse.]
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v. segl-gerǽde.
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