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sceáta

  • noun [ masculine ]
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sceáta, an; m.
a corner,angle
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  • Sicilia is þrýscýte (tria habet promontoria ) on ǽlces sceátan ende sindon beorgas. Ðone norþsceátan man hǽt Polores . . . and se súþsceáta hátte Bachinum . . . and ðone west*-*sceátan man hǽt Libeum . . . se þridda sceáta is án hund and syfan and hund syfantig míla westlang,

    • Ors. 1, 1
      • ;
    • Swt. 28, 2-9.
the lower corner of a sail (cf. sheet the rope fastened to the lower corner of a sail: Icel. skaut, skaut-reip the sheet of a sail)
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  • Sceáta

    pes veli,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 63, 59.
bosom, lap
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  • Geond ealne ymbhwyrft eorþansceátan ,

    • Exon. Th. 359, 26
      • ;
    • Pa. 68
      • .
a cloth, napkin
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  • Hé geseah Godes engel drýgan mid sceátan sc̃i Laurentius limu,

    • Shrn.115, 23.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. scózo m.; gremium, sinus:
Icel. skauti a kerchief used as a purse by knitting all four corners together so as to make a bag.
]
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v. preceding word (sceát).
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v.  súþ-sceáta sceát.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sceáta.” 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/26626.

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