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ge-þræc

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Dele geþrec clangor, and add: a collection of objects pressed together, a throng
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  • Synna gehwǽr selfum æt eágan firendéda geþrec (the throng of my misdeeds) beforan standeþ

    delictum meum coram me est semper,

      Ps. C. 44.

  • Geþræce apparatu (duces, quibus Cerethi et Pelethi cum horrendo belli

    apparatu

    mancipantur,
      Ald. 12, 1), An. Ox. 778.

  • Geþrece,

      7, 59: 8, 87: Wrt. Voc. ii. 76, 53.

  • Fyrdungce, geþræce (Scythica gens cum infinito duelli

    apparatu

    proficiscens,
      Ald. 64, 10), An. Ox. 4560: Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 72: Hpt. Gl. 512, 9.

  • Geþrece,

      An. Ox. 7, 313: 8, 252.

  • Geþrec

    apparatum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 100, 53.

  • Ne þurh þreáta geþræcu (ðerih ðreá[t]un giðraec, v. l. Txts. 151, 6) þrǽd mé ne hlimmeð

    nor through thick-coming torments (? the processes to which the thread is subjected in weaving: cf. the original riddle of Aldhelm 'De lorica,' Nec radiis carpor, duro nec pectine pulsor) does the thread resound with me

    (nec garrula fila resultant,
      Ald. 257), Rä. 36, 6.
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v. searu-geþræc, wǽpen-geþræc.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-þræc.” 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/50132.

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