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Substitute: hrýscan to make a creaking, grating, whirring noise; stridere
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  • Ðǽre hristendan (hríscendan? v. hrýscung) tó swége (this is almost certainly a gloss to Ald. 65, 15: Ad stridulae buccinae sonum)

    ad stridulae,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 3, 46.
  • Strengce ríscendum

    nervo stridente,

      Hpt. Gl. 405, 75.
  • Ríslum hríscendum

    radiis stridentibus,

      An. Ox. 3740.
  • Mid hrýscendum þearma strengum

    argutis (i. stridolis) fibrarum fidibus,

    5006.
Etymology
[For connexion of this word with Mod. E. rush and Ger. rauschen see for one view N. E. D. rush, for another E. S. xxxix. 345.]
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v. ge-hrúxl, hrýsclan.
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