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stefning

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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stefning, stemning, e; f.
a turn, used of service where one set of persons replaces another. (In E. Cornwall Glossary
stemming is given as 'a turn in succession, as when in dry seasons people have to take their regular turn for water at the common pump')
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  • Hié (seó fyrd) hæfdan heora stemninge (steminge,

    another

      MS.) gesetene, Chr. 894; Th. i. 166, col. 2, l. 14. v. stefn; m.; stefnan, II.
a border, hem
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  • Stemning vel hem

    limbus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 26, 6.
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v. limb-stefning; stefnan to fringe.
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v.  stefnan steming stemning.
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  • stefning, n.