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ám-ber

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
ám-ber, óm-ber, óm-bor, es; m. n ?
a dry measure of four bushels; mensura continens quatuor modios sive bussellos. v. Registri Honoris de Richm. App. p. 44, where, in an extent of the manors of Crowhurst and Fylesham, in Sussex, 8 Edw. I, we read, 'xxiii ambræ salis, quæ faciunt xii quarteria, secundum mensuram Londoniæ.' Id. p: 258, it is added: 'quarterium Londinense octo modios sive bussellos continet, AMBRA igitiur quatuor modios.' v. Introduc. to Domesday I. p. 133
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  • Tyn ámbra feðra

    ten ambers of feathers,

    • Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 20, 37
      • .

  • Agyfe mon hine élce mónaþ áne ámbra meles

    let there be given him every month one amber of meal,

    • L. Ath. i. proœm; Th. i. 198, 6
      • .

  • Þritig ómbra rues cornes, feówer ámbru meolwes

    thirty ambers of rye-corn, four ambers of meal,

    • Th. Diplm. A. D. 791-796; 40, 9, 10
      • .

  • Ðæt he agefe l ámbra maltes and vi ámbra grúta

    that he give fifty ambers of malt and six ambers of groats,

    • 835; 471, 12, 13: 832-870; 474, 23
      • .
a liquid measure; batus, cadus
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  • Ámber

    batus,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 25 ; Wrt. Voc. 24, 58
      • .

  • Ámbras

    cadi, lagenæ,

    • Cot. 31, 125
      • :
    • Lk. Lind. War. 16, 6
      • .

  • XII ámbra Wilisces ealaþ, ámber fulne buteran

    twelve ambers of Welsh ale, an amber full of butter,

    • L. In. 70; Th. i. 146, 17, 19
      • .

  • XXX ómbra gódes Uuelesces aloþ, ðæt limpaþ to xv mittum

    thirty ambers of good Welsh ale, which are equal to fifteen mittas,

    • Th. Diplm. A. D. 804-829; 460, 24
      • .
a vessel with one handle, a tankard, pitcher, pail; lagena, urceus, amphora, situla, hydria
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  • Ómbor

    lagena,

    • Mk. Lind. Rush. War, 14, 13
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  • Ombora

    urceorum,

    • 7, 8
      • .

  • Ómbor

    amphora.

    • Lk. Lind. War. 22, 10
      • .
Etymology
[
án one, beran to bear, carry
:
O. Sax. émbar, émber, m. amphora
:
Ger. eimer, m
:
O. H. Ger. einpar, eimberi, m. situla, hydria
.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ám-ber.” 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/1572.

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