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trem

  • noun [ neuter ]
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trem, trym
a step
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  • Ic ðæt geháte ðæt ic heonon nelle fleón fótes trym

    I vow that I will not flee hence one footstep

    (cf. ðæt he nolde fleógan fótmǽl landes,
      139, 57; By. 275), Byrht. Th. 138, 68; By. 247.
  • Fótes trem, Beo. Th. 5044; B. 2525. The form is probably to be recognized in a gloss given Anglia viii. 33, 163 note, ægne trem rendering pede*-*temtim, for which perhaps fægre, tremmǽlum might be read. Cf. Hpt. Gl. 477, 78, where the gloss for the same passage is fægre; fægre oððe fótmǽlum gradatim. Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 47; fótmélum pedetemptim, Txts. 90, 834; siæpnǽlum

    gradatim.

    Hpt
      Gl. 497, 54.
  • Cf. also: Ðonne wiðtremð hé and onhupaþ

    gressum post terga revocet,

      Past. 58; Swt. 441, 27.
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v.  trym wiþ-tremman.
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