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payment contracted to be made for the temporary use of anything
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  • Sume men syllað eác cyrcan tó hýre swá swá wáclice mylna . . . ac hit ne gedafenað ꝥ man dó Godes hús ánre mylne gelíc for lyðrum tolle, Hml. S. 19, 248. Ia. where the thing is money, interest, usury :-- Hýre

    fęnoris, usurę,

      Germ. 389, 45.
payment contracted to be made for personal services, wages
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  • Gif mé nú mettas and wín, and ic hit þé gilde eft of míre hýre

    I will pay ii you back out of my wages

    (cf. hé bæd ꝥ hé móste healdan heora æceras and him móde earnian, 216),
      Hml. S. 30, 261.

  • Hí ealle wǽron on ðǽre hýre gelíce,

      Hml. A. 44, 509.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hýr.” 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/53729.

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