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hæc

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Substitute for all but the bracket: hæc[c], e ; /. and hæc[c], hæcce, es; m. A hatch, heck, [hatch a gate or wicket; a flood-gate or sluice; a contrivance for trapping salmon: heck a grating or frame of parallel bars . . . used to catch fish at a weir, N. E. D.] In the following instances it is not easy to determine which of the meanings just given should be assigned in each case. In stánweges hæc the word seems to mean a gate; in the compound forms æt hacceburnan, C. D. iii. 292, 21: v. 136, 12 : on haccaburnen, 21: of haccebroce, 13 : vi. 70, 13: on hæccebróc, 21, one of the other meanings seems appropriate. Cf. too, hæcceleás díc, vi. 17, 20; but see (?) hæcce.
fem, or uncertain
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  • Ðis synd ðá landgemǽra intó Passefelde. Ðæt is, ǽrest of ðáre ealden hæcce æt freoðene felde . . . eft intó ðǽre ealdan hæcce . . . tó ðáre wudehæcche; of ðǽre hæcce . . . wið æffan hecce. . . æt werdhæcce; of werdhacce. . . meó stánweges hacce; of stánweges hacce: In Angrices burne tó ealder-mannes hæcce, tó ðǽr cynges hæcce ; of ðǽr cynges hæcce. . . tó Ælsyges hæcce . . . of cerlen hacce — tó cerlen hacce,

      C. D. iv. 157, 4-158, 14.
  • Forð tó bindhæcce ; fram bindhæcce tó tudanhæcce; fram tudanhæcce tó giddincgforda,

      iii. 275, 6.
  • Innan þone reádan weg ; ollung þæs reádan weges; ꝥ innan þá hecce; ollung þá hecce; ꝥ innan þá hecce firn igeán þǽre cyrcan.

      Swt. Rdr. 11. 203, 10.
masc.
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  • Swá west ðæt hit cymð tó ðan hæcce be súðan Cranrnere,

      C. D. iii. 399, 22.
  • Capturam in arnne Derentan constructarn, quae usitato æt Ginan hecce nuncupatur uocabulo,

      199, 8.
  • Of ðám hæcce . . . eft innon ðane hæcc,

      vi. 171, 5-8.
  • Ðæne hæcce,

      76, 29.
  • Andlang weges tó ðan hæcce,

      234, 23.
  • Of þǽre díc on þone burnan ; of þám burnan on þone hæc; of þám hæcce on eobban slæd,

      C. D. B. iii. 63, 33.
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v. hæc-geat, hæc-wer; hæcce; hec, hecc.
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