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þearm-gewind

  • noun [ masculine ]
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þearm-gewind, -wind, es; m. The words seem to mean 'that which enwraps the intestines,' cf. plecta wǽfelsa, gewynde, Hpt. Gl. 462, 64, but they are used to gloss jugulam (-um?), so should mean the collar-bone, or the hollow part of the neck above the collar-bone, or
the throat
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  • Gescyld ðearmgewind (ðearmwind, lxxiv, 24), breóstbán, breóst

    tege jugulam, pectusculum, mamillas,

      Lchdm. i. lxxii, 1.
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