Trog

Old English Dictionary Entry

Trog

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: wín-trog.

Definitions

1 trog

m. I. a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials :-- Trog albeus, genus vasis, Txts. 109, 1140: can-thera, 49, 425 : Wrt. Voc. ii. 14, 7. Lege on hatne stán on troge, geót hwón wæteres on, Lchdm. ii. 326, 5 : iii. 30, 9. Dó on troh háte stánas, ii. 68, 5. Hé sende ðæt wæter in trog (peluem), Jn. Skt. Lind. Rush. 13, 5. Man sceal habban trogas, Anglia xiii. 264, 14. II. a trough-shaped thing, a cradle, a boat :-- Cilda trog conabulum, Txts. 51, 492. Cf. ciltrog cune, 115, 154. Hé wæs biddende ánes lytles troges, ðæt hé mehte his feorh generian exiguo contentus latere navigio, Ors. 2, 5 ; Swt. 84, 15. III. a water-pipe, conduit, IV. a basin of water (?) :-- Of ðæm forda on ðone sǽtroh. of ðæm troge on ðone hǽþenan bvrgels, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 456, 32. Tó trogan, 434, 15: 435, 11. [O. H. Ger. trog alveus, alveolus, collectaculum, canalis: Icel. trog trog

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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