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  • Ðurh ðá cweorne (

    molam) is getácnod se ymbhwyrft ðisse worolde . . . Ðonne bið sió cweorn becierred ðonne se monn bið geendod; ðonne bið sió micle cweorn (cwiorn, v. l. )

    becierred ðonne ðeós weorld bið geendod,
      Past. 31, 18-22.

  • Wolde hé grindan mid his hondum . . . Þá sóna þá hé þǽre cweorna neálǽhte, and ꝥ corn þǽron lægde, þá orn (grand,

    v. l.

    ) seó cweorn þurh godcunde miht, and se abbod . . . stód be þǽre cweorna,
      Mart. H. 200, 22-26.

  • Coern (cwearne, R.)

    mola,

      Mk. L. 9, 42.

  • Stán coern (cern, R.)

    lapis molaris,

      Lk. L. 17, 2.

  • Æt cweorne (on coernæ, L.)

    in mola,

      Mt. R. 24, 41.

  • On coern,

      Lk. p. 9, 11.

  • Se IIII. nihta móna, se byð gód þǽm ergendan hys sul út tó dóne, and þém grindere his cweorn,

      Lch. iii. 178, 1. v. pipor*-*cweorn.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “cweorn.” 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/42306.

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