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heáfod-stocc

  • noun [ masculine ]
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heáfod-stocc, es; m. This word, which occurs several times in charters that describe the boundaries of land, seems from the following passage to mean
A stock or post on which the head of a criminal was fixed after beheading
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  • Heora lima man ealle tóbrǽd ǽlc fram óðrum . . . and ðá heáfodleásan man héngc on ðá portweallas, and man sette heora heáfda swilce óþra ðeófa búton ðám portweallon on ðám heáfodstoccum,

      Hml. S. 23, 71-76.
  • Instances of occurrence in charters are

    Æfter Foss tó þám heáfodstocce,

      C. D. iii. 384, 29.
  • Of ðǽre hylle andlang ðǽre díc úp tó heáfodstoccan; of heáfodstoccan andlang strǽt, v. 110, 34: 217, 14.

  • Tó weáwan hócan; ðanon on ðá heáfodstoccas,

      207, 26.
  • Be gemǽre; ðæt on ðá heáfodstoccas; of ðan stoccan on ðone mǽrstán, iii. 439, 6.
  • On gerihte on ðá heáfudstoccas; of ðan heáfodstoccum, vi. 62, 7.
  • On gréne wei on neðe héuedstokes; of ðanne héuedstocken, iii. 201, 32.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “heáfod-stocc.” 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/51868.

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