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á-cumba

  • noun [ masculineneuter ]
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á-cumba, an; m: ǽ-cumbe, an; n ? [cemban to comb] .
Wright's OE grammar
§401;
oakum, that which is combed, the coarse part of hemp,—Hards, flax, tow; stuppa = στύππη,στύπη [v. heordas stuppæ, R. 68]
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  • Afyl ða wúnde, and mid ácum-ban besweð

    fill the wound, and swathe up with tow.

    • L. M. 1, 1; Lchdm, ii. 22, 21
    • .
  • Ǽcumbe

    stuppa,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 64; Som. 69, 2
    • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 40, 36
    • .
the thing pruned or trimmed, properly of trees, and figuratively of other things, hence,— Prunings, clippings, trimmings; putamen, hinc,—putamina non solum arborum sunt, verum omnium rerum purgamenta. Nam quicquid ex quacumque re projicitur, putamen appellate
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  • Ácumba

    puta-men,

    • Mone B. 3702
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  • Ácumban

    putamina,

    • 3703, p. 407
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reduced to ashes, it was used as a substitute for σπόδιον = σποδός Wood ashes; spodium Græcorum nihil aliud est, quam radix Alcannæ combusta, officinæ ustum ebur ejus loco substituunt
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  • To sealfe, ním. ácumban, cneówholen

    for a salve, take the ashes of oakum, butcher's broom,

    • L. M. 1, 33; Lchdm, ii. 80, 11
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  • Ácumba

    ashes of oakum,

    • 1, 47; Lchdm, ii. 120, 14
    • .
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v.  á-cuma ǽcumbe.
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  • á-cumba, n.