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glossing cardo
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  • Heor

    cardo

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 103, 39
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a hinge; the bar which forms part of a hinge
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  • Heorras

    serras (seras portarum tuarum,

    • Ps. 147, 13
      • ),
    • Bl. Gl
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a cardinal point (local)
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  • Heorras eorðan

    cardines terrae,

    • Ps. Srt. ii. 186, 29
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  • Heorra,

    • Ps L. Lnd. 238, 12.

  • Æfter þám feówor heorren heofenes and eorðan,

    • Lch. iii. 84, ii
      • .
an essential point
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  • Heorr

    cardo. i. finis,

    • Germ. 388, 3
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  • For þám wé cweþaþ ꝥ ꝥ héhste gód sié se lhéhsta hróf eallra góda, and seó hior ðe eall gód on hwearfaþ, and eác ꝥ þing ðe mon eall gód fore déþ

    quo fit uti summa cardo, atque caussa exfetendorum omnium, bonitas esse jure credatur,

      Bt. 34, 7; F. 143, 35.
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[v.
N. E. D. harre.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “heorr.” 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/52346.

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