Pur

Old English Dictionary Entry

Pur

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 pur

a bittern(?) :-- Hæferblǽte vel pur bicoca, Wrt. Voc. i. 21, 42. Ráradumbla, ðæt is pur onocrotalus, 62, 21. [Purre two sea-birds, the tern and the black-headed gull; pirre-, pyr-maw a sea-bird, E. D. S. Publ. Antrim and Down Glossary.] pur

Runic Inscription

ᛈᚢᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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