Geap-neb

Old English Dictionary Entry

Geap-neb

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 geap-neb

adj. [geap crooked; neb the head, face, beak, nib] Crooked-nibbed, with a bent beak, arched; curvātus :-- Standeþ me hér on eaxelum Ælfheres láf, gód and geapneb Ælfhere's legacy stands here on my shoulders, good and crooked-nibbed, Wald. 94; Vald. 2, 19. geap-neb

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ᚷᛠᛈ-ᚾᛖᛒ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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