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a weapon shot or
hurled, an arrow, a dart, spear, javelin
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  • Gesceot

    cateia, i. telum,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 34, 30.

  • Ánes cynnes gesceot clava vel cateia vel

    teutona,

      35, 44.

  • Gif hit wǽre ésa gescot oððe ylfa gescot oððe hægtessan gescot, nú ic wille ðín helpan. Þis ðé tó bóte ésa gescotes,

      Lch. iii. 54, 9-15.

  • Gescotum

    calamis, sagittis,

      Germ. 392, 52.

  • Ðá díglan gescotu (jacula) ðæs sweocolan feóndes, Past. 431, 5: Ps. Vos. 54, 22. I a. collective, missile weapons :-- Gesceot

    pila,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 35, 45.

  • Swá hié on híran stede gestondað, swá him máre gescot and má flána hiera feónda tó cymð (

    eo crebrioribus sagittis insidiatoris impetuntur).

      Past. 407, 23.
a shot, shooting or
hurling of a missile
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  • Mid ídelum gescotum

    iactibus uacuis,

      An. Ox. 49, 2.

  • Þá þóhton hié ꝥ hié sceoldan ǽrest of þǽm muntum hié gebígan mid hiora flána gescotum,

      Ors. 6, 36; S. 294, 23.

  • Ge mid scotum (gesceotum, v.l.), ge mid stána torfungum, ge mid eallum heora wígcræftum, 3, 9; S. 134, 15. II a. rapid movement of a missile, flight of an arrow :-- Þá wǽmna flugon mid swiftum gesceote on heora fínd,

    Jud. Thw.

      162, 8.
a part of a building shut off from the rest,
chancel
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  • Gesceot

    cancella,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 128, 8.

  • Ðá stód his franca binnan þám gesceote,

      Hml. S. 3, 267.

  • Heó þæt gesceot hrepode,

      Hml. Th. ii. 32, 28.
a shot, scot, contribution
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  • Gif hwylc monn þone ándagan oferhebbe æt his gescote, béte be twifealdum,

      Cht. Th. 614, 23.
Etymology
[O.H.Ger. ge-scoz missile, jaculum: Ger. ge-schoss.]
Similar entries
v. fleax-gescot, leóht-gescot, mealt-gescot, melo-gescot, sáwel-gescot, weax-gescot.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-scot.” 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/49573.

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