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Grammar
geap, geáp, geápes.
Take all together under geáp, and add:
curved, bent
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  • Geáp

    curfa

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 21, 46.

  • Geápum pandis, 116, 23 :

    curvis

    ,
      21, 16.
of a line
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  • Geápum ł gebígedum

    pando, curvo (arcu ),

      Hpt. Gl. 405, 69.

  • Geáp,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 74, 70.

  • Geápe,

      69, 4.

  • On geápum galgan rídan,

      Vy. 33.

  • In ðá geápan linde,

      C. D. iii. 375, 5.
  • On geápan gáran westeweardne, v. 173, 6.
of a surface,
vaulted (of the roof of a house)
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  • Ræced hlifade geáp and goldfáh

    the hall towered up with roof vaulted and gay with gold

    ,
      B. 1800: Ruin. 11.

  • Strúdende fýr steápes and geápes forswealh eall

    every roof was burnt

    ,
      Gen. 2556.

  • Under geápne hróf,

      B. 836.

  • Þás hofu dreórgað and þǽs teáfor geápu (

    these vaulted and red-tiled roofs

    ?), tigelum sceádeð hróst-beáges róf,
      Ruin. 31.
curved (of a boat), v. sǽ-geáp.
rounded (of a mountain)
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  • Munt is hine ymbútan, geáp gylden weal (or under
?), Sal. 256.
with convex surface
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  • Gim sceal on hringe standan steáp and geáp,

      Gn. C. 23.
crafty, clever, astute
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  • Geáp

    callidus

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. i. 85, 37.

  • Sé þe gehealt þreágincga geáp (

    astutus) hé wyrð, Scint. 114, l. Gép (astutus )

    ealle déð mid geþeahte,
      199, 10.

  • Mann gép (

    uersuttis

    ) bedíglað ingehýd,
      94, 17.

  • Án fox þe is geápest ealra deóra,

      Shrn. 14, 19.

  • Sé þincð nú wærrest and geápest þe óðerne mæig beswícan,

      17, 23.
Etymology
[Ne beo ȝe noht ȝepe (prudentes) toȝene ȝiu seluen. Ðe man is ȝiep toȝenes him seluen ꝥ is smegh oðer man to bicharren . . . Estote prudentes sicut serpentes . . . beoð giepe alse þe neddre, O. E. Hml. ii. 195, 4-16.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “geap.” 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/47071.

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