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steort

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
steort, es; m.
a tail, start (as in red-start, one of the names for ruticilla phoenicurus, also called fire-tail.
Start, plough-start = plough-tail, v. Halliwell's Dict. Stark-naked is a corruption of start-naked)
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  • Steort

    cauda,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 103, 20: 129, 75.

  • Se hálga stert

    sacra spina,

    i.
      283, 50.

  • Ðære helle hund ongan fægenian mid his steorte,

      Bt. 35, 6; Fox 168, 17.

  • Nym hyre (

    the adder's) steort (caudam ),

      Ex. 4, 4.

  • Sume wyrmas wǽren and sume fiscas ðe hæfden án heáfod and monigne steort. Ða steortas, hé sǽde, ðæt hulpan ealle ðæs heáfdes,

      Shrn. 162, 14-16.
a promontory, tongue of land (cf.
Start Point in Devon, Start Island in the Orkneys)
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  • Andlang weges ðæt hit sticaþ on norðeweardum cynges steorte,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 48, 9.

  • Of ðæm weall tó steorte,

      464, 25.

  • Be gemǽre ðæt on ðone steort; of ðam steort on ða strǽt,

      438, 22.
  • Oð ðone steort; fram ðam steorte andlang ðæs fúlan bróces, ii. 250, 22.

  • Cf. Penwiht-steort

    the Land's End,

      Chr. 997; Erl. 135. 10.
Etymology
[Ðe leun drageð dust wið his stert ðer he steppeð, Misc. 1, 9. Stert of an appull, of a handle of a vessel, of a plow, Prompt. Parv. 474, col. 2. See also Cath. Angl. 363, nn. 2, 3. O. Frs. stert tail: Du. staart: O. H. Ger. sterz stiva: Ger. sterz tail; plough-tail: Icel. stertr tail: Dan. stjert: Swed. stjert tail; plough-tail.]
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v. rysc-steort.
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v.  stert.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “steort.” 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/28922.

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