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Hand-tam

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adj. So tame that it may be handled; mansuetus :-- Gif ðú mid wilddeórum mé nú bǽtan wylt hí beóð sóna handtame, Hml. Skt. 8, 86. [N. E. D. hand-tame. O. H. Ger. hant-zam subjugatus, edomitus.] hand-tam
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ᚻᚪᚾᛞ-ᛏᚪᛗ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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