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weard-mann

  • noun [ masculine ]
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weard-mann, es; m.
A guard, watchman, keeper
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  • Nyte wé hweþer se weardmann wǽre ǽfre gefullod,

      Homl. Skt. i. 11, 293.
  • Ealle ða weardmenn wǽron geswefode búton heora ánum,

      11, 200: 4, 419.
  • Ða weardmenn ðe bewiston Cristes líc,

      Homl. Ass. 79, 175.
  • Hé geseah ðæra sceaþena fær and to ðám weardmannum becom. Ðá gelæhton ða weardmen his wealdleðer, ðæt hé mid fleáme ne burste,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 18, 15.
  • Wylsce menn geslógan mycelne dǽl Englisces folces ðæra weardmanna,

      Chr. 1053; Erl. 188, 10.
  • Nytendum ðám weardmannum ic áríse

    clam custodibus surgo,

      Ælfc. Gr. 47; Zup. 272, 1: Homl. Skt. i. 4, 217: Homl. Ass. 78, 152: Anglia x. 99, 311.
  • Hé heora wæterscipe mid weardmannum besette

    constituit centenarios per singulos fontes,

      94, 172.
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