Bíd-steal
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - bíd-steal
According to the Old English Dictionary:
-steall, es;
- bíd-steal
- m. [bíd an abiding, delay; steal a stall, place] A stand, halt; statio, mora :-- He, beald in gebéde, bídsteal gifeþ he, bold in prayer, maketh a stand, Exon. 71 a; Th. 265, 29; Jul. 388. Ic eofore eom cénra, ðonne he, gebolgen, bídsteal giefeþ I am bolder than a wild boar, when he, enraged, makes a stand, 110 b; Th. 423, 11; Rä. 41, 19. bid-steal