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beó-ceorl

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
beó-ceorl, beó-cere, es; m.
A BEE-CEORL, bee farmer or keeper; bocherus, apum custos
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  • Be ðám ðe beón bewitaþ. Beóceorle gebyreþ, gif he gafolheorde healt, ðæt he sylle ðonne lande gerǽd beó. Mid us is gerǽd ðæt he sylle v sustras huniges to gafole

    concerning those who keep bees. It behoves a keeper of bees, if he hold a taxable hive [stock of bees], that he then shall pay to the country what shall be agreed. With us it is agreed that he shall pay five sustras of honey for a tax 'bochero,

    id est, apum custodi, pertinet, si gavelheorde, id est, gregem ad censum teneat, ut inde reddat sicut ibi mos [MS. moris] erit. In quibusdam locis est institutum, reddi v [MS. VI] mellis ad censum,'
    • L. R. S. 5
    ; Th. i. 434, 35-436, 2.

  • Swá ic ǽr be beócere cwæþ

    sicut de custode apum dixi

    • L. R. S. 6
      • ;
    • Th. i. 436, 17
      • .
Etymology
[beócere = Barbarous
Lat. bocherus = beó a bee, cherus = herus a master.
]
Derived forms
þeów-beócere
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “beó-ceorl.” 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/3686.

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