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Wright's OE grammar
§375;
Dele twý- at end, and add:
of weapons
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  • Egc acies, hiltan

    capulum,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 84, 20.

  • Ecge

    mucrone,

      An. Ox. 52, 3.

  • Scearp sweord ðá wunde tósceát, and gǽð gehálre ecgge forð,

      Past. 453, 17.

  • Hé ealle ofslóh mid swurdes ecge,

      Hml. S. 25, 415.

  • Hí þá Bryttasfardydon þurh fýr and ðurh swyrdes egge,

      Chr. 448; P. 12, 38.
an edge, verge, brink of high ground
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  • Of ðám slæde úp on ðá ecg; ðæt andlang ecge,

      C. D. iii. 438, 33.

  • Úp on wádhám; ðonne be ecge,

      406, 23, 34, 35.

  • Of cumbes súðecge . . . ðonan súð on ecge oð ðæt niéhste slæd,

      416, 21.

  • Úp ofer feld . . . tó wuda; of wuda be ecge . . . á norð be ecge; of ecge eást,

      446, 18-23.

  • On Wilbaldes ecge; of Wilbaldes ecge,

      439, 2.
  • Á be ecge on ðá medemunga; of ðǽre mædemunge nyðær on ðone ealdan wíðig, v. 286, 31.
  • Be ðæs hlinces niðerecge, iii. 418, 19.

  • Ádún ofer ðá ecge ðæt hit cymð tó Crimes hylle,

      389, 29. v. scír-ecg; -ecge.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ecg.” 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/43607.

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