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geatwe

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
geatwe, gen. a; dat. um; acc. a; pl. f.
Wright's OE grammar
§380;
Arms, trappings, garments, ornaments; armāmenta, vestīmenta ornāmenta
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  • Twegen englas gesceldode and gesperode and mid heora geatwum gegyrede, efne swá hie to campe féran woldon

    two angels with shields and spears and with their equipments, just as if they meant to go to battle,

    • Blickl. Homl. 221, 28.
  • Freólíce in geatwum [MS. geotwum]

    in trappings goodly,

    • Chr. 1066
    • ;
    • Th. 334, 35, col. 1
    • ;
    • Edw. 22.
  • Geatwum

    with ornaments,

    • Exon. 109 a
    • ;
    • Th. 417, 26
    • ;
    • Rä. 36, 10.
  • Ic geondseah recedes geatwa

    I looked over the ornaments of the house,

    • Beo. 6167
    • ;
    • B. 3087.
Derived forms
eóred-geatwe, fyrd-, gryre-, gúþ-, here-, hilde-
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v. ge-tawe.
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