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heordan

  • noun [ feminine ]
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heordan, heorde, an; f.
The coarse part of flax, tow, oakum; in pl. hards of flax
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  • Of heordan wearpe

    de sluppe [i. lini] stamine,

    • An. Ox. 3726
    • :
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 24, 30.
    (For both see Ald. 51, 23.)
  • Heordan

    stuppa,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 121, 14
    • .
  • Heordena (altered from heorþena) tendre

    naptarum fomite

    (heordan

    naptarum fomitum),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 78, 7:

    heordena

    naptarum,

    • 59, 58
    • .
    For all three see Ald. 23, 5, An. Ox. 1649.
  • Heorþena

    stupparum,

    • 3292.
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[v.
N. E. D. hards.
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