Spyrte

Old English Dictionary Entry

Spyrte

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

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1 spyrte

f. A basket:--Spyrte fiscella, Germ. 400, 492. Spirte cistula, Wrt. Voc. i. 288, 33: ii. 17, 7. Of ðære láfe wǽron gefyllede seofon spyrtan. . . . Spyrte biþ, swá swá gé sylfe witon, of rixum gebroden, oððe of palmtwygum, Homl. Th. ii. 402, 6-9: 396, 8. Siofun sperta septem sportas, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 15, 37: 16, 10. [Lat. sporta.] spyrte

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ᛋᛈᚣᚱᛏᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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