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han-créd

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
han-créd, -crǽd, hon-, es; m.
Cock-crowing, cock-crow, a division of the night
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  • Hancréd

    conticinium vel gallicinium,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 94
      • ;
    • Som. 75. 122
      • ;
    • Wrt.Voc. 53, 4
      • .

  • Seó niht hæfþ seofan dǽlas ... fífta is gallicinium ðæt is hancréd

    the night has seven divisions ... the fifth is gallicinium, that is, cock-crow,

    • Lchdm. iii. 244, 4
      • .

  • Hér wæs se móna áþístrod betwux hancréd and dagunge

    in this year the moon was eclipsed between cock-crow and dawn,

    • Chr. 795
      • ;
    • Erl. 59, 25
      • .

  • On ǽfen ðe on midre nihte ðe on hancréde ðe on morgen

    sero, an media nocte, an galli cantu an mane,

    • Mk. Skt. 13. 35
      • :
    • Bd. 4, 23
      • ;
    • S. 595, 27
      • :
    • Homl. Th. i. 74, 21
      • .

  • Honcréd,

    • Exon. 99 a
      • ;
    • Th. 370, 32
      • ;
    • Seel. 68
      • .

  • Ðone drenc on þreó þicge æt ðám þrím honcrédum

    let him take the drink at three times at the three cock-crowings,

    • L. M. 2, 65, 2
      • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 294, 5
      • .

  • Se cyning embe forman hancréd út gangende wæs

    the king about the first cock-crowing was going out,

    • Lchdm. iii. 424, 34
      • .

  • Ðá com se Hǽlend embe ðone feórþan hancréd

    quarta autem vigilia noctis venit Iesus,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 14, 25
      • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. hano-krád
:
O. H. Ger. hana-crát gallicinium, galli cantus
.]
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v.  créd.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “han-créd.” 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/18109.

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