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gafol
/ɣavol /*
Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Noun
Gender: Feminine
This might be just a supplemental entry adding to an entry in the Main Volume.
Related §§ in Wright's OE Grammar:
gafol
, e; f. A fork. Take here geafel in Dict., and add :-- Furca, furcula diminutive gæfle, Wrt. Voc. ii. 151, 82. Hé sceal habban ... race, geafle, Angl. ix. 263, 7. Forcelle gæfle, dictae quod frumenta celluntur, i. commoventur, Wrt. Voc. ii. 150, 17. [O. L. Ger. gaƀala: O. H. Ger. gabala furca, furcilla.] v. berigeblæ; gafol-rand.
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gafol
, gafel, gaful, es; n. [gifan to give] Tax, tribute, rent, interest; vectīgal, trĭbūtum, census, ūsūra :-- Hyra ár is mǽst on ðæm gafole, ðe ða Finnas him gyldaþ : ðæt gafol biþ on deóra fellum, and on fugela feðerum their revenue is chiefly in the tribute, which the Finns pay them : the tribute is in skins of beasts, and in feathers of birds, Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 20, 32-34. To gafle gesettan to let out for rent, Chr. 1100; Erl. 236, 6. Gafol ūsūra, Ælfc. Gr. 43; Som. 45, 4. Ætýwaþ me ðæs gafoles mynyt ostendĭte mihi numisma census, Mt. Bos.
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Gafol-
, Gaful-ford; gen. -fordes; dat. -forde, -forda; m. [gafol tribute, ford a ford : the tributary ford] Camelford, Cornwall; lŏci nōmen in agro Cornubiensi :-- Hér wæs Weala gefeoht and Defna æt Gafolforda [Gafulforda, Th. 110, 111, 17, col. 1] here [A. D. 823] there was a battle of the Welsh and Devonians at Camelford, Chr. 823; Th. 110, 17, col. 2; 111, 17, col. 2, 3.
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gafol-
, gaful-gylda, -gilda, -gelda, an; m. I. a tribute-payer, tributary, debtor; trĭbūti reddĭtor, dēbĭtor :-- Rómáne hý to gafol-gyldum gedydon the Romans made them tributaries, Ors. 3, 8; Bos. 63, 38 : Bd. 2, 5; S. 506, 20. Beón hig ealle gesunde and þeówion ðé and beón ðíne gafolgildan cunctus pŏpŭlus salvābĭtur et serviet tĭbi sub trĭbūto, Deut. 20, 11. Twegen gafolgyldan wǽron sumum lǽnende duo dēbĭtōres ĕrant cuidam fænĕrātōri, Lk. Bos. 7, 41 : 16, 5.
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gafol-
, gaful-rǽden, -rǽdenn, e; f. [gafol tribute, -rǽden state, condition] Tribute; trĭbūtum :-- On sumum landum gebýreþ máre gafolrǽden in quibusdam lŏcis plus gabli reddĭtur, L. R. S. 5; Th. i. 436, 3.
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