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a ship
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  • Gewát flota fámigheals fugle gelícost,

    • B. 218
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a collection of ships with their crews, a fleet
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  • Flota

    classis, navis collectae,

    • Txts. no, 1170:

    clasis,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 104, 16
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    • 14, 45
      • .

  • Þonne flota (or underI. ?) stondeð; bið his ceól cnmen and hyre ceorl tó hám,

    • Gn. Ex. 96.

  • Ðæt man sceolde Swegen underfón dá hé ǽrest mid flotan cóm,

    • C. D. Hi. 315, 3.

  • Wæs se cyning mid þám flotan þe on Temese læg (wǽron, v.l.) . . . Se cyning gewende fram þám flotan,

    • Chr. 1013
      • ;
    • Th. 272, 12, 19.
the crews of the skips
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  • Se flota eall gecuron Cnut tó cyninge.

    • Chr. 1014
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    • P. 144, 28
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  • Lǽgun seofene các, eorlas Anláfes, unrím heriges, flotan and Sceotta,

    • 937
      • ;
    • P. 108, 13
      • .
a sailor
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  • Hé mid orde ánne gerǽhte flotan on þám folce.

    • By. 227
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v. unfriþ-flota.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “flota.” 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/45276.

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