Bád

Old English Dictionary Entry

Bád

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words: wed, wedd. bad

Definitions

1 bád

f. [from bǽdan compellere] A pledge, stake, a thing distrained; pignus :-- Gif bád genumen sý, ðonne begyte ða báde hám if a pledge be taken, then shall he obtain the pledge home again, or back, L. O. D. 3; Th. i. 354, 6, 7. DER. bádian; néd-bád; nýd.

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚪᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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