Hridder

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hridder

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: hriddel. hridder

Definitions

1 hridder

n. A sieve, instrument for winnowing corn: -- Hridder capisterium, taratantara, Ælfc. Gl. 50; Som. 65, 116, 117; Wrt. Voc. 34, 45, 46. Ðá ábæd his fóstormóder án hridder ... Benedictus genam ða sticcu ðæs tóclofenan hriddores ... hí ðæt hridder up áhéngon æt heora cyrcan geate, Homl. Th. ii. 154, 16-24. [O. H. Ger. ritra cribrum, cribellum.]

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ᚻᚱᛁᛞᛞᛖᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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