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wǽde-ráp

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
wǽde-ráp, es; m.
A stay, halyard; pl. rigging
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  • Segelgyrdas antemnas, wǽderápa (wæderráp,

    • Wrt.
    ) rudentum (the passage is: Antemnas solvens de parte rudentum, Ald. 213),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 97, 30.
  • Untóslitenum wǽderápum (the passage is: Quod nostrarum carbas antennarum indisruptis rudeniibus feliciter transfretaverint, Ald. 80),

    • 88, 32.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. wát-reif rudens
.]
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