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  • Bred

    tabetum.

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 121, 81
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  • Ic ðé bidde ðæt ðú mé on ðǽm scipgebroce ðisses lífes sum bred gerǽce, ðæt ic mæge on sittan, oð ic tó londe cume,

    • Past. 467, 24
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  • Legs bred þweores ofer þá fét,

    • Lch. ii. 342, 6
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  • Ðá ungesewenlican brega (breda? cf. (?) breden) næglas

    invisibiles sudum clavos,

    • Lch. i. lxxiv, 13
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a tablet, table for writing on
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  • Brede

    albo, i. tabula,

    • Hpt. Gl. 477, 51
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    • An. Ox. 3032
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  • Bræde,

    • 2, 139
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  • Sé þæt fácn tó his cýþþe gebodade, and hit on ánum brede awrát, and siþþan mid weaxe be-worhte

    quod per tabelias primum scriptas, deinde ceratas, suis prodidit,

    • Ors. 2, 5
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    • S. 80, 2
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  • Ðá stǽnenan bredu ðe sió ǽ wæs on áwriten,

    • Past. 125, 18
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  • On twelf bredun þe þá þeódwitan þǽrtó ámearcode,

    • Angl. viii. 321, 41.
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v. gyrdel-, hand-, nam-, pic-, rihte-, tæppel-, writ-bred.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “bred.” 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/40842.

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