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leger-bedd

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
leger-bedd, es; n.
A sick-bed, bed of death, grave
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  • Sum mǽden hé gehǽlde ðæt ðe langlíce læg on legerbedde seóc

    a maiden he healed that had long been confined to her bed by sickness,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 510, 25.
  • Árís nú and ber hám ðín legerbed,

    • i. 472, 25.
  • Ðæt ðú ðus láðlíc legerbed cure

    that thou shouldst choose so loathly a couch [the grave],

    • Soul Kmbl. 307
    • ;
    • Seel. 157
    • :
    • Wulfst. 187, 12
    • .
  • Sceal ðis sáwelhús legerbedde fæst wunian wælræste,

    • Exon. 47 b
    • ;
    • Th. 164, 2
    • ;
    • Gú. 1005
    • :
    • Beo. Th. 2019
    • ;
    • B. 1007
    • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. legar-bed.
]
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