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weall-geweorc

  • noun [ neuter ]
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weall-geweorc, es; n.
Wall-work,
wall-building
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  • Gang tó ðínum weallgeweorce (

    a monastery was being built

    ),
      Homl. Skt. i. 6, 173.
  • Sí hit ǽlces þinges freoh bútan ferdfare and walgeworc (cf. burh-bót) and brycgeworc,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 5, 13.
  • Hé gesette hí tó his weallge*-*weorcum, ðæt hí worhton his burga (

    in aedificationibus urbium suarum

    ), Anglia x.
      91, 96.
the destruction of walls
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  • Aries byð ram betwux sceápum and ram tó wealgeweorce,

      Ælfc. Gr. 5; Zup. 12, 5.
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