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healm

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Wright's OE grammar
§335;
For substitute I a below, and add:
in a collective sense,
stubble, straw
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  • Hég

    foenum,

    healm

    stipula,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 289, 46
    • .
  • Healm

    stramen spicarum,

    • ii. 137, 48
    • .
  • Swá hwylc man swá ofer þisne staþol seteð . . . híg oððe healm

    (stipulam)

    . . . þeáh þe ꝥ híg and ꝥ healm forbyrne,

    • Gr. D. 328, 23-27
    • .
  • Wið liðseáwe, genim bereu healm,

    • Lch. ii. 134, 2
    • .
  • Sete hié swé swé halm

    (stipulam)

    biforan onsiéne windes,

    • Ps. Srt. 82, 14
    • :
    • ii. p. 187, 26
    • .
  • Ðæt halm

    paleas,

    • Lk. R. 3, 17.
stubble as representing the arable land from which a crop has been gathered:
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  • Ciricsceat mon sceal ágifan tó ðám healme and tó ðám heorðe

    (according to the amount of cultivated arable land and to the kind of house.

    But the old Latin version has: A culmine et mansione)

    ðe se mon on bíþ tó middum wintra,

    • Ll. Th. i. 140, 13
    • .
a straw, stalk
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  • Eár

    spica,

    egla

    arista,

    healm

    culmus,

    codd

    folliculus,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 38, 49
    • :
    • 67, 36
    • .
  • Healm vel stela

    culmus,

    • ii. 137, 48
    • .
  • Ðá halm geberned

    paleas comburet,

    • Lk. L. 3, 17
    • .
  • Ða halmas,

    • Mt. L. 3, 12
    • .
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v. bere-healm, hwǽ-healm.
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