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  • Gyrdel vel ágimmed gerdel clavus vel

    strophium,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 40, 51.

  • Swyrdes gyrdel

    baltheus,

    58.

  • Gyrdel oððe belt

    balteum,

    ii. ii. 51.

  • Gyrdel oððe bréc

    lumbare,

      51, 15.

  • Synd gesealde from þám abbode ealle neádbehéfe þing, þæt is . . . gyrdel

    (bracile),

      R. Ben. 92, 3.

  • Þá begyrde he hine mid his gyrdele

    (cingulo) . . .

    Sóna swá hé wæs mid þám gyrdele begyrd,
      Guth. Gr. 148, 7.

  • Hé stód on ðám wætere tó his gyrdle

    (usque ad lumbos,

    Bd
      5, 12), Hml. Th. ii. 354, 18.

  • Mid gildenum girdle his breóst wæs befangen,

      Ll. Th. ii. 370, 4.

  • Ðonne þú gyrdel (-er,

      MS. )
    habban wylle, þonne sete þú þíne handa forewearde wiðneoþan þínne nafolan and stríc tó þenum twám hypum, Tech. ii. 119, 21.

  • Hí cuwon heora girdlas,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 21, 9.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gyrdel.” 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/51379.

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