burh-waru
- noun [ feminine ]
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Ǽlc burhwaru wæs búgende to him
non fuit civitas quœ se traderet illis,
- Jos. 11. 19.
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Wearþ eall seó burhwaru onstyred
commota est universa civitas,
- Mt. Bos. 21, 10: Chr. 1013; Th. 271, 28, col. 1.
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Wæs mycel menegu ðære burhware mid hyre
erat turba civitatis multa cum illa,
- Lk. Bos. 7, 12.
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Ic gefrægn leóde tosomne burgwaru bannan
I learnt that the people, the body of citizens, were summoned together,
- Andr. Kmbl. 2189; An. 1096.
Bosworth, Joseph. “burh-waru.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/5475.
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