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scip-here

  • noun [ masculine ]
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scip-here, es; m.
a collection of skips of war, a naval force, a fleet of war
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  • Sciphere classis, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 28; Som. 11, 56: Wrt. Voc. i. 73, 75:

    classica,

    ii.
      131, 62.

  • Flota, sciphere

    clasis,

      14, 45.

  • Sciphere eów nymþ

    reducet te Dominus classibus in Aegyptum,

      Deut. 28, 68.

  • On ðæs sǽs waroþe tó súþdǽle ðanon ðe hí sciphere on becom

    in litore oceani ad meridiem quo naves eorum habebantur,

      Bd. 1, 12; S. 481, 11.

  • Ðý ilcan geáre gegadrode micel sciphere on Ald-Seaxum, and ðǽr wearð micel gefeoht,

      Chr. 885; Erl. 84, 6.

  • Gif ǽnig sciphere on Engla lande hergie,

      L. Eth. ii. 1; Th. i. 284, 15.

  • Ðý sumera fór Ælfréd cyning út on sǽ mid sciphere and gefeaht wið .vii. sciphlæstas,

      875; Erl. 78, 6.

  • Persa cyning sende Conon mid scipehere (scip-,

      MS. C.), Ors. 3, 1; Swt. 96, 25.

  • Ðá cóman hí sóna mid sciphere

    mox advecti navibus,

      Bd. 1, 12; S. 480, 34.

  • Ðæt on land Dena láðra nǽnig mid scipherge sceðþan ne meahte,

      Beo. Th. 491; B. 243.

  • Ne gehérde nón mon ðáget nánne sciphere, ne furþon ymbe nán gefeoht sprecan,

      Bt. 15; Fox 48, 14.

  • Se cyng wæs west on Defnum wið ðone sciphere (

    acting against the Danish fleet

    ),
      Chr. 894; Erl. 92, 26.

  • On ðysum geáre wæs micel unfriþ on Angelcynnes londe þurh sciphere,

      1001; Erl. 136, 2.

  • Sciphergas,

      Met. 8, 31.
the men of a ship of war
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  • Ælfréd cyning gefeaht wið feówer sciphlæstas Deniscra monna and ðara scipa tú genam . . . and tuegen scipheras him on hond eodon, and ða wǽron miclum forslægene, ǽr hié on hond eodon (cf. ðara sciþa twá genámon . . . and twá him on hand eodon, and ða men wǽron myclum ofslagene, ǽr hí on hand eodan,

      MS. E.), Chr. 882; Erl. 82, 12.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “scip-here.” 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/26865.

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