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scild-truma
/ʃildtruma /*
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scild-truma
. Add: a compact body of troops, a company :-- Scildtruman testudine, An. Ox. 3796. Férde hé him hindan tó mid ðrým scyldtruman (he went forth behind them in three companies, 1 Macc. 5, 33), Hml. S. 25, 423. [v. N. E. D. sheltron.]
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scild-truma
, an; m. A phalanx; testudo :-- Under þiccum scyld-truman subter densa testudine, Ælfc. Gr. 47; Som. 48, 29. Of sceltruman testudine, Hpt. Gl. 475, 66. [He makede his sceldtrume swulc hit weoren an hær wude. Laym. 16371. A scheltrone hec acies, Wrt. Voc. i. 240, 9.]
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