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un-grápigende

(adj.)
Grammar
un-grápigende, adj.

Not handlingthat does not handle

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Not handling, that does not handle Hí habbaþ ungrápigende handa manus habent, et non palpabunt (Ps. 115, 7), Homl. Th. i. 366, 27

steór-nægl

(n.)
Grammar
steór-nægl, (?), es; m.
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The handle of a helmWrt. Voc. i. 74, 3. Steórsceofol oððe [steór- ?]nægl clavus, [O. H. Ger. stiur-nagal clavus. ]

gár-beám

(n.)
Grammar
gár-beám, es; m.

The wood or handle of a javelina spear-shaftcuspĭdis hasta

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The wood or handle of a javelin, a spear-shaft; cuspĭdis hasta Gárbeámes feng a spear-shaft's grasp, Cd. 155; Th. 193, 14; Exod. 246

ge-handlian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-handlian, p. ode
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To handle, treat a subject Ús þingð behéflic ꝥ wé on þisre stówe ymbe þarne saltus lunae wurdliun and hine gehandlion, Angl. viii. 308, 16

Linked entry: handlian

fealo-hilte

(adj.)
Grammar
fealo-hilte, adj.

Having a yellow or golden handle căpŭlo flāvo vel aureo instructus

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Having a yellow or golden handle; căpŭlo flāvo vel aureo instructus Feóll to foldan fealohilte swurd the golden-hilted sword fell to the earth, Byrht. Th. 136, 45; By. 166

Linked entry: -hilt

snǽd

(n.)
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the handle of a scythe. þæt íren ford áhleóp of þám hylfe, Gr. D. 113, 27. (This is the same incident as that described in Hml. Th. ii. 162.) Add: Cf

hæft

(n.)
Grammar
hæft, hæfte, es; n.

A haft, handlemanubriummanubriuma haft or kiltcapulum, manubriumhandle

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A haft, handle; manubrium Hæft and helfe manubrium, Ælfc. Gl. 52; Som. 66, 31; Wrt. Voc. 35, 20. Nim ðæt seax ðe ðæt hæfte síe fealo hryðeres horn take a knife, the handle of which is yellow ox-horn, L.

hýnan

(v.)
Grammar
hýnan, hénan; p. de

To abusehumiliaterebukecorrectdespiseoppressafflictill-treat

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To abuse, humiliate, rebuke, correct, treat with insult or contumely, despise, oppress, afflict, ill-treat, bring or lay low, subject Ðám ilcan monnum ðe hé ðǽr þreátaþ and hénþ ipsis fratribus qui corriguntur, Past. 17, 7; Swt. 117, 16. Ða ðe hé ðǽr

Linked entry: hénan

hilte

(n.)
Grammar
hilte, an; f.

A hilt, handle

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A hilt, handle Hilte capulus, capulum [?], Ælfc. Gl. 52; Som. 66, 47, 26; Wrt. Voc. 35, 34, 14. Hiltan capulum, Wrt. Voc. 84, 21. Swá ðæt ða hiltan eodon intó ðam innoþe the haft went in after the blade, Jud. 3, 22.

Linked entry: hilt

slege

(n.)
Grammar
slege, es; n.
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Add: the handle of an axe (?) Heora án his exe úp ábrǽd, wolde hine sleán, ac him forwyrnde sum óþer, swá ꝥ hé ꝥ hylfe gelǽhte and wiðhæfde ꝥ slege (held back the pole of the axe) þone slege the stroke, might have been expected), Hml. S. 31, 154

wriþen-hilt

(adj.)
Grammar
wriþen-hilt, adj.

Having a kilt bound round

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Having a kilt bound round ['In some specimens of swords the handles are wound round with gold wire,' Worsaae's Primeval Antiquities, p. 29] Ðæt sweord, írena cyst, wreoþenhilt and wyrmtáh, Beo. Th. 3400 ; B. 1698

Linked entry: wreoþen-hilt

ír

(n.)
Grammar
ír, [íre, es; n. ?]
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Ger. öhr handle.]

Linked entry: ére

snǽd

(n.)
Grammar
snǽd, es; m.

The handle of a scythe.

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The handle of a scythe. Under the forms snathe, sneath, snead, sned the word occurs in the glossaries of many dialects, e. g. Wilts, Somerset, Northamptonshire. Jamieson also gives it. v. E. D. S. Pub. Gloss.

planéta

(n.)
Grammar
planéta, planéte?, an; m. f. (?).
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.), chasuble Scrýde hine mid superhumerale and mid alban and stolan and handlíne and planétan, ꝥ is godwebben cappe, MS. Laud 482, f. 48 a

a-windan

(v.)
Grammar
a-windan, ic -winde, ðú -wintst, -winst, he -wint, pl. -windaþ; p. -wand, pl. -wundon ; pp. -wunden [a, windan to wind] .

To windbendplecteretorquereTo strip offdetrahereTo whirl or slip offlabi

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To whirl or slip off; labi Gif sió æcs ðonne awient [awint, Cot.] of ðæm hielfe if the axe then slip from the handle, Past. 21, 7; Hat. MS. 32 b, 6

Linked entries: a-wint a-wunden

hatung

(n.)
Grammar
hatung, e; f.

Hating, hate, hatredæmulatio

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Bánu sume handlian hatunge getácnaþ to handle bones betokens hate, Lchdm. iii. 208, 24

hilt

(n.)
Grammar
hilt, es; m. n.

Hilt, handle

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Hilt, handle [the plural, as in much later times, e. g. Shakspere's, is used of a single weapon] Ðá wæs gylden hilt gamelum rince on hand gyfen then was the golden hilt given into the old man's hand, Beo. Th. 3358; B. 1677.

eáre

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Hé him mildheortnesse eáron ontýnde, 107, 1. a handle on a pot. Cf. Icel. eyra a handle on a pot, see N. E. D. ear, ll. 8, and next word

ecglinga

(adv.)
Grammar
ecglinga, eclinga; adv.
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.), on the edge Ðonne þú handlín habban wille, þonne stríc þú mid þínre swýþran hand eclinga ofer þíne wynstran, Tech. ii. 120, 2. Ástrehtre þínre winstran handa ofsete hý eclinga mid þínre swí[þ]ran, 23.

Linked entry: eclinga

holt

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B. ii. 246, 34: gehæg-holt. wood, a piece of wood, handle or shaft of a weapon (?). v. gár-holt Holt capulus (armet dextram capulus ceu parma sinistram, Ald. 214, 17), Wrt. Voc. ii. 97, 33: 20, 17