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burh-scír

  • noun [ feminine ]
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burh-scír, e; f.
A city-boundary, city-liberty; urbis territorium
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  • Ða yfelan leóda fíf burhscíra ðæs Sodomítisces eardes

    the evil people of the five city-boundaries of the Sodomitish land,

      Ælfc. T. 7, 20: Jos. 13; Thw. 152, 9: Cot. 148.
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  • burh-scír, n.