Hryding

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hryding

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 hryding

f. A clearing, a patch of cleared land :-- Hryding subcisiva, Ælfc. Gl. 57; Som. 67, 71; Wrt. Voc. 37, 57. [Cf. O. E. Homl. þe schal ruden þine wei qui præparabit viam tuam: E. D. S. Cumberland Gloss. rid, rud to uproot trees or hedges. 'The frequent names of Ridding and Rudding applied to houses and fields have doubtless originated from this:' Icel. [h]ryðja to clear land, a road, etc.] hryding

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