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Take here gerd, gyrd in Dict., and add:
of material.
a long thin bough of a tree or
stem of a plant whether growing or cut off
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  • Tóh gęrd, tóch gerd

    lentum vimen,

      Txts. 75, 1207.
  • Tóh gerd,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 50, 74.
  • Gerd

    virgultum,

      123, 66.
  • On gerde

    hysopo,

      Jn. L. R. 19, 29.
  • Mið gerd (gerdum, R.) ł mið hreáde

    harundine,

      Mk. L. 15, 19.
  • Gerd bifiende

    harundinem quassatam,

      Mt. L. 12, 20: Lk. L. 7, 24.
  • Wudebǽre gyrda

    vimina siluestria,

      An. Ox. 1806.
  • Þæt hé menige tó þám wuda . . . and geféðrige hys wǽnas mid fegrum gerdum, þæt hé mage windan manigne smicerne wáh,

      Solil. H. 1, 11.
a rod, staff
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  • Girde snace áwendre

    uiminis (Aaron's rod) ex colubro transfigurati,

      An. Ox. 156.
  • Hé him bebeád ꝥ hí náht on wege ne námon búton gyrde (gerde,

      R., gerd, L.) áne, Mk. 6, 8.
a rod for chastisement or punishment
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  • Mid gierde mon bið beswungen, and mid stæfe hé bið áwreðed. Gif ðǽr ðonne sié gierd mid tó ðreágeanne, sié ðǽr eác stæf mid tó wreðianne,

      Past. 127, 1: 117, 8.
  • Óstig gyrd

    scorpio,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 21, 17.
  • Cild ic eom under gyrde drohtniende,

      Coll. M. 34, 23.
  • Láreów mín áwecþ mé stíþlíce mid gyrde,

      35, 31.
  • Hé hét hí ealle beswingan mid gyrdum, and siððan beheáfdian, Hml. S. 29, 283. I a. a straight line drawn as a mark :--

    Ymniscus

    ys seó gyrd þe byð betwyx þám twám pricon ligende,
      Angl. viii. 333, 44.
as a measure
of length, a rod, pole. v. passage under weall-stellung
and met-gird
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  • Ðæs landes . . . .xxiii. gerda on lange, and on brǽde ðár hit brádest is fíf geurda, and ðǽr hit unbrádost is ánne geurde . . . ðonne eástrichte. .xliii. geurde and .vi. fét tó ðǽre eáststréte; ðonne súðrichte .xx. geurde and .vi. fét,

      C. D. V. 163, 13-30.
of area, a virgate, fourth part of a hide, thirty acres. v. Seebohm's Vill. Comm., Andrews's Old English Manor, s. v.
yardland
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  • Ic gesealde hym áne gyrde landes tó underwedde . . . Ðis sind þá landgemǽro þǽre gyrde,

      Cht. Crw. 9, 119-122.
  • Be gyrde (girde,

    v. l.

    ) londes. Gif mon geþingað gyrde landes oþþe máre,
      Ll. Th. i. 146, 1-2;
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  • Hý létan him tó þá twá hída landes æt Áweltúne and áne gyrde, and æt Weattan ígge þreó gyrda,

      C. D. B. i. 543, 38-544, 1.
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v. breóst-gird, cyne-gird, hefeld-gird, hreód-gird, met-gird, segl-gird, sige-gird, sund-gird.
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