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ge-rǽpan, Substitute: To fasten with a rope, bind, chain
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  • Gerǽped

    inretita(tenacissimis vinculis),

      An. Ox. 4596.

  • Hé hafað ealla gesceafta gerǽped (cf. hé hí hæfð gehæfte, Bt. 25; F. 88, 5) mid his racentum

    ligans singula nexu,

      Met. 13, 8.

  • Him þinceð þæt hé sié racentan gerǽped videbit intus arctas dominos ferre catenas, 25, 37. Him wyrð sefa . . . unrótnesse gerǽped (-reæpeð, MS. ), hearde gehæfted (cf. hi weorþaþ gerǽpte

    (printed

    -ræfte) mid þǽre unrótnesse and swá gehæfte,
      Bt. 37, I; F. 186, 21) moeror captos fatigat, 25, 48.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-rǽpan.” 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/49300.

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