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trem

  • noun [ neuter ]
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trem, trym
a step
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  • Ic ðæt geháte ðæt ic heonon nelle fleón fótes trym

    I vow that I will not flee hence one footstep

    (cf. ðæt he nolde fleógan fótmǽl landes, 139, 57; By. 275),
    • Byrht. Th. 138, 68;
    • By. 247.
  • Fótes trem,

    • Beo. Th. 5044;
    • B. 2525.
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    • Anglia viii. 33, 163 note,

    ægne trem

    rendering

    pedetemtim

    , for which perhaps

    fægre, tremmǽlum

    might be read.
  • Cf.
    • Hpt. Gl. 477, 78,
    where the gloss for the same passage is

    fægre; fægre oððe fótmǽlum

    gradatim,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 47;

    fótmélum

    pedetemptim,

    • Txts. 90, 834;

    siæpmǽlum

    gradatim.

    • Hpt Gl. 497, 54.
  • Cf. also:

    Ðonne wiðtremð hé and onhupaþ

    gressum post terga revocet,

    • Past. 58;
    • Swt. 441, 27.
The form is probably to be recognized in a gloss given
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v.  trym wiþ-tremman ægnetrem æncnetrym.
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