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here-teám

  • noun [ masculine ]
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here-teám, es; m.
plundering, spoiling, devastation, taking part in a 'here,' i. e, a predatory band of more than thirty-five members [v. here]
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  • Se ðe hereteáme betogen sý

    he who is accused of taking part in a 'here,'

    • L. In. 15; Th. i. 112, 2, MS. H.
  • Heardlíc hereteám

    fierce devastation,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 3100; An. 1553.
what is got by an army, plunder, booty, spoil
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  • Ðæs hereteámes ealles teóþan sceat

    a tithe of all the spoil,

    • Cd. 97; Th. 128, 4; Gen. 2121.
  • Gewát hám síþian mid ðý hereteáme ðe him se hálga forgeaf

    departed home with the spoil that the holy man gave him,

    • 98; Th. 130, 19; Gen. 2162.
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  • here-teám, n.