ofer-hragan
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ofer-hragan
. Add: to cover over (?). Cf. hrægel.
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Cite the scanned version of the original dicionary like this:- Toller, T. Northcote, and Joseph Bosworth. "ofer-hragan." An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth : Supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. 659.
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ofer-hragan
to come in storms(?) :-- Wǽtum hé oferhrægeþ, gebryceþ burga geatu it (snow) comes in damp storms on cities' gates, and breaks them, Salm. Kmbl. 612; Sal. 305. [Cf. Icel. hragla to sleet; hregg a storm.]