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hoppe

  • noun [ feminine ]
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hoppe, an; f.
An ornament suspended from the neck, a bell [?] hung from a dog's neck
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  • Hryðeres belle and hundes hoppe ǽlc biþ ánes sciłł. weorþ and ǽlc is melda geteald

    an ox's bell and that on a dog's collar, each is worth a shilling and each is reckoned an informer,

      L. Edg. H. 8; Th. i. 260, 16.

  • Hie eall him gesealdon ðæt hie ðá hæfdon búton ðæt ǽlc wífmon hæfde áne yndsan goldes and án pund seolfres and ǽlc wǽpnedmon ǽnne hring and áne hoppan

    ita ut nihil præter annulos singulos, bullasque sibi ac filiis, et deinde per filias uxoresque suas singulas tantum auri uncias, et argenti non amplius quam singulas libras relinquerent,

      Ors. 4, 10; Swt. 196, 21.
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v.  ge-hopp.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hoppe.” 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/19494.

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