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Prætt

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m. Craft, art, wile, trick :-- Præt, prætt astu, Ælfc. Gr. 43; Zup. 257, 8. Wó dómas and prættas, Anglia viii. 336, 40 : Wulfst. 245, 2. Prættum artibus, Hpt. Gl. 459, 23. Ongeán þúsendfealde derigende prattas contra mille nocendi artes, 424, 46. [Prat, pratt a trick, wicked action, Jamieson's Dict. : cf. Laym. mid pretwrenche, 81 : mid prætwrenchen (2nd MS. felle wrenches), 5302: Icel. prettr a trick.]
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ᛈᚱᚫᛏᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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