. Substitute : fæsten-geweorc, es;
n. Work at the repairing or
construction of fortifications: one of the three obligations included in the
trinoda necessitas. v.
burh-bót, brycg-geweorc :-- Bútan fæstengewerce and fyrdsócne and brycggeweorce, C. D. ii. 111, 16. Fæstengeworce, 24. Freódóm from ǽghwelcum eorðlecum þeówdómæ bútan firdæ and fæstængewæorcæ and brycggewæorce
excepto expeditione et arcis pontisque constructione, v. 218, 25. Fyrðe and brycge and festergeweorc héwe swá mon ofer eall folc dó, 151, 30.