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Wright's OE grammar
§7; §106; §256; §320; §401; §562;
Add: , bog (? cf. boga arcuum, An. Ox. 511).
a (rain-) bow
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  • ꝥ heó þone heofonlican bogan mid hyre bleóge efenlæce,

    • Lch. i. 284, 15
      • .
an arch, a vault :
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  • Fornix

    boga (-o)

    super columnis,

    • Txts. 64, 453
      • .

  • Bígels, boga, incleofa

    camera, areas, fornax,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 127, 78
      • .

  • Bogan

    fornicem,

    • 37, 2
      • .

  • Bígelsa bogum (boga bígelsum, An. Ox. 511)

    arcuum fornicibus (of an aqueduct, v. Ald. 8, 32),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 76, 3
      • :
    • 37, 1
      • .
bow (as in saddle-bow):
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  • Boga

    antena,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 100, 33
      • :
    • 6, 65
      • .

  • loc

    jugum,

    boga

    antena,

    iocsticca

    obicula,

    • i. 16, 32
      • .

  • Boga

    postena,

    • ii. 117, 52 :

    canda,

    • 103, 26
      • :
    • 14, 8
      • .

  • Bogan

    boiae (cf. boia, arcus vel geoc,

    • 126, 42
      • ),
    • 12, 55
      • .
a bow for shooting:
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  • Flá

    sagiita,

    boga

    arcus,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 35, 35
      • :
    • 84, 30
      • .

  • Hé gebende his bogan and mid flán ðone fearr ofsceótan wolde,

    • Hml. Th. i. 502, 18
      • :
    • Bl. H. 199, 18
      • .
folded parchment [cf. Ger. bogen]:
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  • Cine

    quaternio,

    boga

    diploma,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 75, 12.

  • [Bowa

    diploma,

    • 89, 51.
      • ]
the word occurs as a surname :
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  • Édwíg boga,

    • C. D. B. iii. 536, 5.
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v. geoc-, sadol-boga.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “boga.” 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/40697.

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