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nídling

  • noun [ masculine ]
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nídling, es; m.
one who serves of necessity, a slave, bondman
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  • Gif ðú fioh tó borge selle ðínum geféran ðe mid ðé eardian wille, ne niéde ðú hine swá niédling (MS. H. nýdling),

    • L. Alf. 35
    • ;
    • Th. i. 52, 22.
  • Hié on cnihtháde wǽron óðerra manna niédlingas

    in youth they had been the bondmen of others,

    • Ors. 2, 2
    • ;
    • Swt. 66, 17.
  • Se æðeling bebeád ðæt hié ða consulas and witan him beforan drifen swá swá niédlingas, ðæt heora bismer ðý máre wǽre,

    • 3, 8
    • ;
    • Swt. 122, 7.
  • Hý ealle tó nýdlingum him gedydon,

    • 1, 5
    • ;
    • Swt. 34. 34.
  • Wæterberere oððe nédlungum

    lixarum,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 52, 73.
one who has to serve on board ship, a sailor
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  • Nédling

    nauta;

    nédlingas

    nauticos,

    • 60, 30, 29.
  • Ðá ongunnon ða nýdlingas and ða scypmen ða ancras on ðone sǽ sendan woldon ðæt scyp mid gefæstnian

    tentabant navitae anchoris in mare missis navem retinere,

    • Bd. 3, 15
    • ;
    • S. 541, 40.
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  • nídling, n.