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HÓC

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
HÓC, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§128;
A HOOK
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  • Hooc arpago vel

    palum,

      Ælfc. Gl. 3; Som. 55, 71; Wrt. Voc. 16, 43.

  • Ic eom swá swá fisc on hóce

    I am as the fish on the hook,

      Nar. 40, 33.

  • Ðonne biþ hé geteald tó dære fýrenan eá and to ðam ísenan hóce

    then shall he be assigned to the fiery river and the iron hook,

      Blickl. Homl. 43, 25, 27.

  • Wíngearda hócas ðe hí mid bindaþ ðæt him néhst biþ capreoli vel cincinni vel

    uncinuli,

      Ælfc. Gl. 59; Som. 68, 9; Wrt. Voc. 38, 59.

  • Ðá sóhtan heora gewinnan him sarwe and worhtan him hócas

    at contra non cessant uncinata hostium tela,

      Bd. 1, 12; S. 481, 21: Homl. Th. i. 362, 27.
Similar entries
v. hinder-hóc.
Linked entries
v.  hóced hóc-ísern.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “HÓC.” 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/19390.

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