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bed, bedd.
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a bed, couch
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  • Bedd, bed

    culcites,

      Txts. 50, 243.

  • Bed

    culcites, culcitatum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 52, 53.

  • Wolde beddes neósan gamela Scylding,

      B. 1791: Jud. 63.

  • Bedde

    culcita,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 91, 14.

  • Ic árás of mínon bedde (lectulo),

      Coll. M. 33, 23.

  • Swalt hé fǽringa on his bedde,

    • Chr. 1054
      • ;
    • P. 185, 29.

  • Hié restað búton bedde and bolstre

    quiescentes sine ceruicalibus stratisque,

      Nar. 31, 11.

  • Drihten him bringð fultum tó his bedde (stratum) þe hé an líð (super lectum), and eall his bedd hé onwent,

      Ps. Th. 40, 3.

  • Bed æfter búrum,

      B. 140.

  • On bed stígan,

      676.

  • On ðæt hnesce bed gesinscipes,

      Past. 397, 22.

  • Reced geondbrǽded wearð beddum and bolstrum,

      B. 1240.

  • Ic syndrigra hús and bedd (bed, v. l.) geseah

    singulorum casas ac lectos inspexi,

      Bd. 4, 25; Sch. 500, 12.
a surface on which something rests?
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  • Þersc-wald

    limen,

  • oferdyre

    superliminare,

  • bed

    spatula,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 290, 18: Txts. 98, 971.
of ground.
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v. grund-bed
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of ground where plants grow.
[
O. H. Ger. betti areola.
]
of ground occupied by insects.
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v. ǽmet-bed, bed-gerid. See D. D. bed = ant-hill.
Derived forms
brýd-, deáþ-, fór-, gærs-, hild-, hlin-, leger-, neó, rest-, wælbed
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Bosworth, Joseph. “bed.” 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/39676.

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