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geolca

  • noun [ masculine ]
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geolca, gioleca, geoloca, an; m.
A YOLK; ovi vitellus
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  • Sceáwa nú on ánum æge, hú ðæt hwíte ne biþ gemenged to ðam geolcan, and biþ hwæðere án æg

    look now on an egg, how the white is not mingled with the yolk, and yet it is one egg,

      Homl. Th. i. 40, 28.
  • On æge biþ gioleca on middan

    in an egg the yolk is in the middle,

      Bt. Met. Fox 20, 339; Met. 20, 170.
  • Genim geolocan

    take the yolk,

      L. M. 1, 2; Lchdm. ii. 38, 7.
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v.  geoloca gioleca.
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  • geolca, n.