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sester

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
sester, seoxter, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§329;
a vessel, jar, pitcher
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  • Sester

    amfora,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 24, 36: 83, 23.

  • Hé hét heora ǽlcne geniman ánne æmtigne sester . . . Hig slógon tógædere ða sestras (

    lagenas

    ).
      Jud. 7, 16-19.

  • Cristallisce dryncfatu and gyldne sestras wǽron forþborenne

    crystallina vasa potatoria et sextariola aurea invenimus,

      Nar. 5, 14.
a measure for liquids or for dry things; its capacity is uncertain,
as an English measure
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  • Twegen sestres sápan and twege[n] hunies and þré ecedes, and se sester sceal wegan twá pund be sylfyrgewyht. Lchdm. iii. 92, 14.

  • Cf. Unum sextarium mellis triginta duarum unciarum,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iv. 285, 1.

  • Wæs swýðe mycel hungor, and corn swá dýre, swá nán mann ǽr ne gemunde, swá ðæt se sester (

    Henry of Huntingdon renders this : 'sextarius frumenti, qui equo uni solet esse oneri

    ') hwǽtes code tó, lx. penega and eác furðor.
      Chr. 1043 ; Erl. 169, 31.
  • xv pund (yntsan ? cf. 'sextarius medicinalis habet uncias decem,' note on this passage) wætres gáþ tó sestre, Lchdm. ii. 298, 26.

  • Fífténe sestras líðes aloþ,

      Chart. Th. 105, 12.

  • Twelf seoxtres beóras,

      158, 22.
as a foreign measure
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  • Under sestre

    sub modio,

      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 5, 15.

  • Hund sestra (

    cados

    ) eles,
      Lk. Skt. 16, 6.

  • Ǽlc wæterfæt wæs on twegra sestra gemete oððe on þreora

    capientes singuli metretas binas uel ternas,

      Jn. Skt. 2, 6.

  • Gecned þrí sestras (

    sata

    ) smedeman,
      Gen. 18, 6.

  • Habbaþ emne gemetu and sestras

    sint justus modius aequusque sextarius,

      Lev. 19, 36.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. sehstári, sehtári: Ger. -sester, sechter a measure of grain, twelve bushels; measure of liquids, sixteen quarts. From Lat. sextarius. Cf. Fr. sétier (for grain) twelve bushels ; for liquids, two gallons : Ital. sestiere a pint-measure.]
Similar entries
v. wín-sester.
Linked entries
v.  seolfor-gewiht.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sester.” 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/27537.

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