Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

waru

  • noun [ feminine ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
waru, e (but the declension seems partly u-stem) ; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§366;
Ware, merchandise
Show examples
  • Mangere mercator, waru

    merx,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 73, 73.
  • 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.
  • 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.
    [Chæpmen bnnden heore ware, Laym. 11356.
  • Þe wreche peoddare more noise he makeð to ȝeien his sope, þen a riche mercer al his deorewurðe ware,

      A. R. 66, 19.
  • Ðe chapmen into Egipte ledden ðat ware, Gen. and Ex. 1990.

    O. Frs. were: Icel. vara; f. ]

Full form

Word-wheel

  • waru, n.