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wíc-geréfa

  • noun [ masculine ]
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wíc-geréfa, an; m.
The reeve of a wíc. v. wíc, III. From the Latin words which are translated by wícgeréfa, it seems that the official so denominated was concerned in collecting taxes, and from a passage in the laws that it was one of his duties to act as witness at sales. As a wícgeréfa of Winchester is mentioned in the Chronicle, wíc cannot be confined to small towns
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  • Wícgeréfa

    publicanus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 18, 47.

  • Se (St. Matthew) wæs

    theloniarius,

    ðæt is gafoles moniend and wícgeréfa,
      Shrn. 131, 24.

  • Beornulf wícgeréfa (so three MSS., the fourth has wíc-geféra;

    Florence of Worcester has

    praepositus Wintoniensium) on
      Wintanceastre, Chr. 897; Th. i. 174, 175, 30.

  • Gif Cantwara ǽnig in Lundenwíc feoh gebycge, hæbbe him twégen oþþe þreó unfácne ceorlas tó gewitnesse, oþþe cyninges wícgeréfan ... gekýþe hé mid his gewytena ánum, oþþe mid cyninges wícgeréfan, ðæt hé ðæt feoh in wíc gebohte,

      L. H. E. 16; Th. i. 34, 3-10.

  • Uuícgeroebum

    teloniaris,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 122, 28.
  • See Kemble's Saxons in England, ii. p. 175.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wíc-geréfa.” 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/35515.

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