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  • Feotur, fetor

    pedo vel paturum,

    • Txts. 85, 1552
      • .
a fetter for a person
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  • Sum man gesette his ðeówan man on fetera. Hé sæt lange on þám láðum bendum, oð þæt hé bestæl út mid his stafe hoppende and gesóhte ðone sanct . . . Se scyttel ðá ásceát of þǽre fetere,

    • Hml. S. 21, 414-419
      • .

  • Gebundene feterum

    vinculis ligatos,

    • Ps. Th. 106, 9
      • .

  • Mið feoturum (feotrum, L.

    compedibus)

    gibunden . . . ðá feoturo (fattro, L.

    compedes)

    forbræc,

    • Mk. R. 5, 4
      • .

  • Mið fatrum,

    • Lk. L. 8, 29
      • .
a shackle for an animal
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  • Gyf feoh sý underfangen. Gif hit hors sý sing on his feteran oþþe on his brídele,

    • Lch. iii. 286, 5
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  • On his fetera oððe on his brídel,

    • i. 392, 9.
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v. fót-, ísen-, ísern-feter.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “feter.” 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/44888.

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