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§7; §43; §51; §110; §211; §212; §214; §232; §240; §268; §309; §310; §334;
Take here iuc in Dict., and add:
a (material) yoke.
for animals
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  • Scear vomer, culter cultor, geoc

    jugum,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 74, 74.
a collar to secure prisoners
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  • Boia (boia torques vinctorum, Migne), arcus vel geoc,

    boias

    sweorcopsas,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 126, 42, 43.

  • Hié mon on geocum and on racentum beforan hiera triumphan drifon (

    but the Latin is:

      Catenatis, sub jugum missis), Ors. 5, 1; S. 214, 16.
a (non-material) yoke.
of that which unites people
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  • Sié in ðǽr[e] iwocc lufes and sibbes

    sit in ea jugum dilectionis et pacis,

      Rtl. 109, 33.
of that which represses or oppresses
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  • Hié under ðǽm geoke (gioke,

    v. l.

    ) his hláforddómes ðurhwunigen,
      Past. 197, 8.

  • Hí onbugon tó þám wynsuman iuce wuldres cyninges,

      Hml. S. 29, 178.

  • Hú hefig geoc hé beslépte on ealle þá þe on his tídum libbende wǽron,

      Bt. 16, 4; F. 58, 16.

  • Eálá ofermódan! hwí gé wilnigen ꝥ gé underlútan mid eówrum swiran ꝥ deáþlice geoc,

      19; F. 68, 27.
a measure of land, as much land as could be ploughed in a day by a yoke of oxen(?). The word is given as Kentish in the D. D., and the charter from which the following passage is taken is Kentish. Cf. geoc-led
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  • Ðonne is ðes londes xvi gioc ærðelondes and medwe all on ǽce ærfe tó brúcanne,

      C. D. i. 316, 25.
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v. under-geoc.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “geoc.” 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/49099.

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