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gealg-treów
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gealg-treów
. Add: a gallow-tree (gallows-tree comes in only in the 19th cent. The older form remains in local names e. g. Gallowtree-gate in Leicester) :-- Tó ðám galhtreówe on deópan dene, C. D. iii. 439, 12.
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gealg-treów
, es; n. A gallows-tree, cross; crux :-- Dryhten þrówode on ðam gealgtreówe for guman synnum the Lord suffered on the cross for the sins of man, Rood Kmbl. 289; Kr. 146. v. galg-treów.
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