Hand-cops

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hand-cops

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 hand-cops

m. A handcuf, manacle :-- Handcops manice, Wrt. Voc. 86, 33. Tó gewrídenne cyningas heora on fótcopsum and æðele heora on handcopsum ísynum ad alligandos reges eorum in compedibus et nobiles eorum in manicis ferreis, Ps. Spl. C. 149, 8. hand-cops

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚪᚾᛞ-ᚳᚩᛈᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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