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friþ-scipe

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
friþ-scipe, friþ-scip, es; n.
A guard-ship (?), a ship on ike look-out for hostile vessels (?)
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  • Of manegum landum máre ( more than the trinoda necessitas ) landriht áríst tó cyniges gebanne, swilce is . . . scorp tó friðscipe and sǽweard,

    • Ll. Th. i. 432, 8.
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Etymology
[
Thorpe would read fird-scipe.
]
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Cf. unfriþ-scip.
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  • friþ-scipe, n.