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hlíp

  • noun [ feminine ]
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hlíp, e; f.
a leaping-place, a place to be jumped over (v. N. E. D. deer-leap a lower place in a hedge or fence where deer may leap)
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  • On hinde-hlýp; of hinde-hlýpe,

    • C. D. iv. 19, 24
    • .
Hindehlíp occurs as a local name:
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  • Landes snmne dǽl, ðæt synd .iii. hída ðe fram cúðum mannum Hindehlép is geháten,

    • C. D. iii. 5, 7.
a precipitous fall in a river (cf. stæþ-hlípe), leap as in salmon leap
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  • Of ðǽre ealdan hæcce into présta hlýpe, intó ðám bece . . . tó Freóbearnes hlýpe . . . Of ðám æssce tó ðǽre ældan hlýpe; of ðáre hlýpe tó ðáre ealden wudehæcche . . . of ðám bróce tó ðan æssce . . . of Werdhæcce tó eácrofte . . . intó Æðeríces hlýpe, of ðáre hlýpe intó wulfhlýpe,

    • C. D. iv. 157, 4-35
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v. hlípe.
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v.  hlípe-burna.
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