waru
- noun [ feminine ]
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Mangere mercator, waru
merx,
- Wrt. Voc. i. 73, 73.
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Hí wurpon heora waru oforbord
they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea
(Jonah- I, 5), Homl. Th. i. 246, 2.
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Ða gelamp hit æt sumum sǽle, swá swá gyt for oft déð, ðæt Englisce cýpmenn bróhton heora ware tó Rómána byrig, and Gregorius eode be ðære strǽt tó ðám Engliscum mannum heora ðing sceáwigende. Ðá geseah hé betwux ðam warum cýpecnihtas gesette, ii. 120,
- 14-18.
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Þe wreche peoddare more noise he makeð to ȝeien his sope, þen a riche mercer al his deorewurðe ware,
- A. R. 66, 19.
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Ðe chapmen into Egipte ledden ðat ware, Gen. and Ex. 1990.
O. Frs. were: Icel. vara; f. ]
Bosworth, Joseph. “waru.” 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/34710.
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