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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-weorp

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1 ge-weorp

n. A throwing, tossing, dashing, what is thrown up, a heap; jactus, jactātio, projectio :-- Ofer waroþa geweorp over the dashing of the waves, Andr. Kmbl. 611; An. 306. Ðǽr ðú geseó tord-wifel on eorþan up weorpan ymbfó hine mid twám handum mid his geweorpe when you see a dung-beetle in the earth throwing up mould, catch it with both hands along with his casting up, L. M. iii. 18; Lchdm. ii. 318, 17.
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ᚷᛖ-ᚹᛇᚱᛈ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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