Spora

Old English Dictionary Entry

Spora

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: , spura, an; Related words: hún-, táh-spora, -spura ; hand-spor(a ?) ; sporu. spora

Definitions

1 spora

m. A spur :-- Spora calcar, Txts. 47, 361: 110, 1164. Spura, Wrt. Voc. ii. 17, 3, 63 : i. 84, 3 : 288, 22 : Hpt. Gl. 505, 70: Ælfc. Gr. 9, 16; Zup. 42, 10. Calcaria spuran dicta, quia in calce hominis ligantur, Wrt. Voc. ii. 127, 44. Spurum calcaribus, 17, 62. Hé heów ðæt hors mid ðam spuran (cf. Icel. höggva hest sporum), Ælfc. T. Grn. 18, 22. .ii. spuran on .iii. pundan, Chart. Th. 503, 8. [O. H. Ger. sporo: Icel. spori.]

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛈᚩᚱᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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