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a tree
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  • Nim ǽlces treówcynnes dǽl bútan heardan beáman (cf. tree heard)

    arborem sicomorum,

      Lk. L. 19, 4, Lch. i. 398, 8.
a beam, post
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  • Beám

    trabes,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 82, 13:

    trabs,

      290, 6.

  • Swá swá greát beám (or tree?) on wyda wyrcþ hlúdne dynt,

    • Bt. 38, 2
      • ;
    • F. 198, 9.

  • Of beáme

    de stipite,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 26, 10.

  • Tó earnes beáme (or tree ?) . . . fram earnes beáme,

      C. D. ii. 73, 25.

  • Dúnstán ána ætstód uppon ánum beáme (in uno de laquearibus),

    • Chr. 978
      • ;
    • P. 123, 3.

  • Se leóma wæs swilce ormǽte beám,

    • 1106
      • ;
    • P. 240, 21.

  • Heora earmas wǽron swá ormǽte beámas,

      Hml. S. 4, 288.

  • Gewyrcean tor of treówum and of mycclum beámum,

      Bl. H. 187, 12.

  • Man þá beámas gelegð and þá ræftras tó þǽre fyrste gefæstnað,

      Angl. viii. 324, 9.
    v. sýl-, wín-beám.
a beam as part of an implement:--
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  • Borige hé on þám beáme (of the plough)

      Lch. i. 402, 1.
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    v. scear-, sulh-, web-beám.
a beam of light
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  • Blódig wolcen on mistlice beámas wæs gehíwod,

    • Chr. 979
      • ;
    • P. 122, 26.
Derived forms
cist-, cisten-, cwic-, cráwan-, fúl-, hnut-, mór-, wanan-beám
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v. ciris-,
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Bosworth, Joseph. “beám.” 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/39552.

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