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han-créd

  • noun [ masculine ]
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han-créd, -crǽd, hon-, es; m.
Cock-crowing, cock-crow, a division of the night
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  • Hancréd conticinium vel

    gallicinium,

      Ælfc. Gl. 94; Som. 75. 122; Wrt.Voc. 53, 4.

  • Seó niht hæfþ seofan dǽlas ... fífta is gallicinium ðæt is hancréd

    the night has seven divisions ... the fifth is gallicinium, that is, cock-crow,

      Lchdm. iii. 244, 4.

  • Hér wæs se móna áþístrod betwux hancréd and dagunge

    in this year the moon was eclipsed between cock-crow and dawn,

      Chr. 795; Erl. 59, 25.

  • On ǽfen ðe on midre nihte ðe on hancréde ðe on morgen

    sero, an media nocte, an galli cantu an mane,

      Mk. Skt. 13. 35: Bd. 4, 23; S. 595, 27: Homl. Th. i. 74, 21.

  • Honcréd,

      Exon. 99 a; Th. 370, 32; Seel. 68.

  • Ðone drenc on þreó þicge æt ðám þrím honcrédum

    let him take the drink at three times at the three cock-crowings,

      L. M. 2, 65, 2; Lchdm. ii. 294, 5.

  • Se cyning embe forman hancréd út gangende wæs

    the king about the first cock-crowing was going out,

      Lchdm. iii. 424, 34.

  • Ðá com se Hǽlend embe ðone feórþan hancréd

    quarta autem vigilia noctis venit Iesus,

      Mt. Kmbl. 14, 25.
Etymology
[O. Sax. hano-krád: O. H. Ger. hana-crát gallicinium, galli cantus.]
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v.  créd.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “han-créd.” 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/18109.

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